How about using Control-Ent to log the call without sending CW then
you can alternate between the call and exchange fields with the up/down
arrow keys. When happy with the exchange an enter will send the TU message
if you are in the exchange window and you are ready for the next QSO.
Jan G0IVZ
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From: Stephen Merchant[SMTP:merchant@silcom.com]
Sent: 24 February 1998 08:31
To: trlog@contesting.com
Subject: [TRLog] Run Mode Question
Here's one I struggled with over the weekend at N6RO. I was being asked by
K3EST how to handle the following situation <this also happened to me a LOT>:
You're running, a station calls you but you don't quite get his entire
callsign so you ask for a repeat -- you probably have typed part of his
callsign into the callsign window -- anyway, you may go back and forth two
or even three times before you get his complete call (this happens
frequently running EU from Left Coast) and during the last transmission
from this station, he gets fed up with the endless fills and includes his
exchange information. Meanwhile, you still haven't hit Enter the first
time.
What Bob wanted to do was down-arrow into the exchange window, fill in the
exchange, up-arrow back to the callsign window and hit Enter so he could
send his report. This didn't work.
And if he used Ctrl-Z, he could get into the exchange window all right, but
he then would be in S&P mode and it would take a few Escapes to get back
into Run. (This is what I did sometimes.) This wasn't very appealing to
Bob who isn't interested in becoming a keyboard genius.
The alternative scenario was to memorize the guy's exchange, hit Enter to
send your exchange, fill in the exchange info as soon as the window was
accessible, and immediately hit Enter a second time to log the Q and send
the ack/qrz message. This method bothered Bob and caused us both to wonder
how we could do it in a contest with a longer exchange like SS.
In summary, we're looking for a way to move back and forth between the two
windows before the first Enter has been sent.
I felt there probably is some secret method for doing this that I had
simply never learned or had forgotten, but I wasn't able to come up with
anything at the time.
All suggestions gratefully accepted, I have to go back in two weeks for SSB
and will be sitting next to Bob again -- he will expect an explanation by
then, hi. Feel free to "RTFM" me if it's there on page 43.
Thanks for all the Q's this weekend, see you in SSB.
73, Steve K6AW
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