> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of David O Hachadorian
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:06
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Request for additional small feature
>
>
> At present, there are two special-function keys, INSERT,
> and PLUS.
>
> It would be helpful to have one more of these keys somewhere
> on the keyboard, such as numeric keypad MINUS. This key would
> perform the following simple function:
>
> It would send the contents of the "S&P Exchange"
> F-key (e.g. 599 AZ), and it would put the contact in the log.
>
> What I call the "S&P Exchange" is just the exchange you
> send when you are in the S&P mode.
>
> Of course, you still have to watch the other guy's final
> transmission, to be sure that he qsl's, which happens
> about 95% of the time.
>
> This new key would eliminate one keystroke for everyone on
> every S&P QSO, and would ensure that the QSO got put in the log.
>
Yes, the program should never let you enter new data in the exchange window
once it has been completed unless you put it in the log or it warns you. It
is very easy to lose a QSO.
> Several times this past weekend, I found that I had failed
> to press the ENTER key to log a second-radio QSO, and the
> QSO information was lurking in the darkened second-radio
> window, just one mouse-click away from being overwritten.
> In fact, I may very well have overwritten some QSO's by just
> clicking on a new green or yellow callsign in the second radio
> Rttyrite Window.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
> K6LL@juno.com
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