Jim,
I presume that you are from a TR background. Those of us who came from the CT
world, find your commentary about "modes" mystifying. I've used both CT & TR,
but I always preferred the CT approach.
With CT, all of your messages are in the F1 through F4 memories: 1=CQ, 2=exch,
3=TU/QRZ , 4=your callsign.
Writelog can emulate CT's approach very well in CT compatibility mode.
In this mode, Enter always Enters. There is no S&P or Run mode. However, to
facilitate running, the convention is to set up Auto CQ on your F1 CQ memory.
Then when someone calls you, type their callsign and press the Ins (Insert)
key. This sends the callsign you typed, and your F2 message (his call +
exchange). After logging the exchange, then press the + key to say thanks and
log the Q. (Enter+F3) If you use the Ins and + keys on the numeric keypad,
which are large keys, you can get quite comfortable with smacking those big
keys at the appropriate time without a whole lot of care.
When you are S&P, you just type the callsigns, and hit the appropriate memory
function key to send whatever you need to, and hit enter to finally log the QSO.
Anyway, that's the CT approach, and I know lots of people use it very
effectively.
73,
Bob N5NJ
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Jim Smith <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Date: Wed, Dec-17-2003 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Re: issues--HOME key
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> I agree that there are times when automatically logging the Q before
> you've had a chance to edit something causes a slight delay while you
> edit the log. However, I don't find that happens nearly as often as
> losing the Q entirely because I forgot to hit the Enter key.
>
> I have indeed found that you can get WL to do what I want to do for S&P
> or for running, but not both. I did try the menu option you describe
> once while running. Then I did some S&P. I don't recall exactly what
> happened, but somewhere during the first S&P Q a totally inappropriate
> message was sent. That was the end of my interest in that menu option.
>
> I would be delighted if anyone could tell me how to get WL to
> automatically log the Q in both S&P and Run modes. That would be a real
> nice Xmas present.
>
> 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO
>
> Eric Scace K3NA wrote:
>
> >Hi Jim --
> >
> > There are many times when I am not ready to log the QSO at the time the
> > exchange or TU message is sent. I might still be
> >correcting data, for example. So I definitely do NOT want these memories to
> >complete the logging of the QSO.
> >
> > That said, you can achieve exactly what you want by using the Setup/Enter
> > Sends Exchange/QRZ menu option. When you have
> >completed the data entry for the QSO, just hit Enter to cause the "TU QRZ"
> >message to be sent AND to log the QSO.
> >
> >-- Eric K3NA
> >
>
>
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