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[WriteLog] Power Field is Driving me Crazy

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Subject: [WriteLog] Power Field is Driving me Crazy
From: k5zd@ma.ultranet.com (Randy Thompson, K5ZD)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 01:08:20 -0000
F11 does the same thing as Ctrl-W.  It is one of my favorite keys!

Randy, K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-writelog@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-writelog@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Don Hill
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 4:02 AM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Power Field is Driving me Crazy
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> > 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.
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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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