Hi,
This year our club used Writelog for the first year, with the help of
me setting up the wireless networking. People were skeptical of
changing from CT, but for the most part everything worked smooth
expect for some bugs that our operators found.
The first thing we noticed, there is no way to setup 15min band
changes. I found this very odd. How are you supposed to be warned if
you make more than one band change in 15min? Not everyone can remember
that and it would be nice to prevent contacts to be logged or at least
a red flag to let you know that you are in violation of the 15min
rule.
I changed the band setup to the bands that we would only be operating,
but when we did this, in
the band summary window, it no longer told you what each line
represented, with three stations networked together, we could not tell
which band the contacts were made on. Each line just showed numbers
but no label.
With our three stations networked, the SEQ number would be used
multiple times by different stations within the same minute. The CW
station might make a contact and be contact number 150 and then the
phone station makes a contact the same minute and used the same SEQ
number? That doesn't make any sense to me. We had no way to tell
exactly how many Q's were made between the three stations at any given
moment.
Another thing that the CW ops didn't have that they were used to in
CT, was when they were sending a macro from the computer, they
couldn't interrupt the macro by sending on the paddle connected to the
radio. Is this possible with Writelog? I couldn't give them an answer
on that one, I am not a cw op, so I didn't know how CT worked in that
fashion. They would have to press ESC on the computer to interrupt.
They wanted to interrupt with the paddle.
Another problem, is when I go to export the summary sheet, it is
showing contacts on 6m and 10m only, not any other bands?
Back to CT next year I guess, although we won't be able to network
wireless though.
If there is anything I am doing wrong to cause these bugs, please let
me know.
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Jason Armentrout
N4DSL
www.keezletown.com
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