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Re: [WriteLog] Dueling CQ's in WriteLog?

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Dueling CQ's in WriteLog?
From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:12:35 -0400
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Thanks, Mike

Yes - it was this posting, along with a couple of other similar ones I discovered, that tell me that WL worked in the past to do exactly what I need. But it just doesn't work for me with V11.29b under Win7. I tried it yesterday before posting and again to make sure I was following instructions exactly.

I don't see the "CQ will auto-resume" message, and the focus doesn't shift.

If this is working for you there with a recent version of WL maybe I need to change some other option to make it go here. Please let me know what version you are using that it is working with.

Thanks again

Jerry W4UK





At 05:22 PM 10/7/2015, Mike Heideman wrote:
There have been several postings in the past on this topic. A concise step-by-step procedure was posted by ZS6AA several years ago describing how to automatically get dueling CQs.

<http://lists.contesting.com/_writelog/2007-11/msg00028.html>http://lists.contesting.com/_writelog/2007-11/msg00028.html

This has worked for me on RTTY, CW and SSB. I've also used it with one radio on CW and the other on SSB in some multi-mode contests. The second radio CQ automatically resumes after sending a message (exchange, TU, ?) on the first radio. It's helpful to practice typical scenarios before the contest with the transmitters in a Test or local monitor mode to get used to the keyboard and TX switching.

You may also want to look into remapping the various arrow keys used in SO2R to avoid accidentally ending up in the editable log. WC1M advocated disabling of the editable log entry via arrow keys when using SO2R but this change was never made in WL. Use of external key mappers such as AutoHotKey can do this or possibly the WL Keyboard Shortcuts. I add my vote to WC1M's to disable entry into editable log mode through arrow keys.

73,
-Mike, N7MH


Jerry W4UK wrote:
> I have never done single PC SO2R - always used 2 PCs before.
>
> I am getting single PC SO2R RTTY going with my Flex 6700 with SSDR
> V1.50 and the latest version of WL. I have all apparently working but
> find I now must manually click on the desired callsign entry panels
> to switch tx focus back and forth between the two radios/bands.
>
> GOOGLE shows me that WL had this feature years ago, but the procedure
> to get it going doesn't work now for me. Maybe I am missing something.
>
> If WL won't do it, anybody know of any external software to control
> WL to do dueling CQ's?
>
> Help.
>
> Jerry W4UK

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