Dave writes:
>Is there a more graceful way to do this?
How about just using the paddles to send the
report?
Rich KL7RA
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hachadorian <k6ll@juno.com>
To: trlog@contesting.com <trlog@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:41 AM
Subject: [TRLog] forcing dupes into the log
>
>The SS exchange is rather long, so for this contest I have
>AUTO DUPE ENABLE CQ = TRUE.
>
>Every now and then, someone will insist that I am not in his log,
>so I have to work him again. Naturally, the program resists
>entering the same callsign, so the call has to be changed some way.
>I usually add a portable designator, e.g. K5RX becomes K5RX/5.
>Of course I don't want that to go out over the air, so it usually
>involves a frenzy of alt-k's, paddle sending, swearing, and various
>other means to get the contact worked, and the call into the log.
>
>Is there a more graceful way to do this? Could the program perhaps
>add a character, such as asterisk, that could be typed after the
>call, which would not go out over the air, not appear in the log,
>and allow the station to be worked?
>
>Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
>Yuma, AZ
>K6LL@juno.com
>
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