I just wanted to send a short note to everyone on how good WriteLog
worked during last weekend contest. I used for the first time the
printer port to key the cw. It worked just fine, no problems and the
page up and down keys controlled the speed just fine.
I used the telnet feature all weekend. It was sure great. There were
times that I was receiving over 20 spots per minute. Since I was only
in the S&P mode, it was all I could do to click the spots and work
them. I know this is not really radio or contest operation using the
spots but I only operate 10 hours and was really working hard at cherry
picking the rare ones.
The only complaint is the bell rang each and everytime a spot is
received. I finally had to crawl under the desk and pull the plug on
the speakers. Maybe there is a software command to turn it off.
Also, I was wondering if there was a way to only get the band/mode I was
on. But later I figured that I would missed too much. I was able to
work the XU1A on SSB and RTTY because of the spots. Would have missed
them if I had the telnet turned on just for CW.
After the contest, I found that by going to VIEW/Packet Spots, there is
a window to filter the spots. You can chose a band or have it follow
you and give you the spots for only the band you are on. Pretty neat.
Would really help a single band operator.
Thats all from here. Hope to hear from some of you about your
experiences with WriteLog.
73
Joe K0BX
k0bx@qsl.net
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