I was making some contacts on 80 last night. (I want to use WL/DR as my
regular FT platform, for practice and because WL is my logger of choice for
GP use.)
I felt like I was constantly fighting the machine in getting it to send
what needed to be sent.
Stations want signal report instead of or in addition to grid. OK fine, I
can use alternate messages. Except apparently when I can't.
At one point I had two calls in the QSOs in progress (QIP). I was CQing. A
station had not responded to signal report repeats so I moved on. But I'm
supposed to leave it there in case he comes back. (Maybe not?**)
I'm midway thru QSO with #2, and I get to where he gives me a signal report
and I choose the alt message. Except #1 reappears, and DR decides that one
has priority and boom, my alt message is ignored and it sends a response
(it sent grid which we had already done...)
OK, well, I guess I have to finish #1 first. Except instead on the next
cycle we're back to #2. DR seems to be wanting to interleave these two QSOs
and I can't tell it what to send because it keeps switching calls and
flushing my selected alt msg.
I finally got one of them to where I could just send RR73 and complete.
Instead DR started a new CQ.
It seems to me that if I select an alt msg to send I have some idea of why
I chose it and DR should just send it. Shouldn't that be the priority?
** At one point I did get one of them out of QIP to stop the flip-flopping,
but the one hour memory kicked in and resurrected the call. So this may be
moot anyway.
I hope this report helps an excellent work in progress make more progress.
Thanks - jeff wk6i
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Jeff Stai ~ WK6I ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com
RTTY op at W7RN
Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/
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