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[WriteLog] Power Field is Driving me Crazy

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Subject: [WriteLog] Power Field is Driving me Crazy
From: aa5au@msn.com (Don Hill)
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:02:16 -0600
> 3. If there was something in the power field from a previous spot of a
> station I worked before on an other band, and I clicked on a different
> spot, the power remained that of the first spot, i.e. the new spot did not
> overwrite or blank the information --> here's the problem.

I think there is a good explanation for this.  I think it's been discussed
here
before and it may not be a problem on SSB but it has saved me on RTTY
before.  Here it is:

Say you work a station and forget to log him.  Then you click on the next
station and it cleared out the other station's report.  Then you have a
problem,
especially if it is a new station that you haven't worked before and you
don't
remember what report the previous station gave you.

The solution is to train yourself to wipe out (CTRL-W) stations out of the
entry field that you don't want to work or are dupes.  This works for me.
However, most contests I run single op without the packetcluster so there
is no such problem unless it's a station I've mapped manually.

It's not a bug, it's a protection device.

73, Don AA5AU







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