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Re: [WriteLog] enter cancels transmit

To: "'Jeff Stai'" <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com>, "'Writelog Reflector'" <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] enter cancels transmit
From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd@charter.net>
Reply-to: k5zd@charter.net
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:23:23 -0500
List-post: <mailto:writelog@contesting.com>
I think I saw this for the first time during WAE RTTY last weekend.  I had a
number of times where WL stopped sending even though I didn't do anything
that should have caused it to stop.  And like you, it is all muscle memory
now so the key presses happen fast in succession.

Randy, K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Stai
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 2:56 PM
> To: Writelog Reflector <writelog@contesting.com>
> Subject: [WriteLog] enter cancels transmit
> 
> This is something I noticed when I upgraded before the last Makrothen
> contest. It has occurred in every contest since so it's not the Makrothen
> module.
> 
> If I hit the Enter key a half second or so after hitting a message key,
> fairly often the transmission is terminated (as if you typed ESC). Maybe
> happens every 3 or 4 times.
> 
> Of course this is a case of "if it hurts don't do it" But over the many
> years of using Writelog I have gotten used to hitting my TU key and then
> Enter in rapid succession (I've never caught on to ESM...)
> 
> I run 3 PCs for RTTY contesting and it has happened on all 3. Should be
> easy to replicate. I hope.
> 
> I can probably learn my way out of the habit over time, but if it's an
> easy fix it would be nice.
> 
> Thanks! - jeff wk6i
> 
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