Glad you wrote this. It reminded me about WriteLog wanting to interweave
QSOs. That happened to me. With more than one station in "QSOs in Progress",
DigiRite would send a report to one station, then send a report to the next
station and it drove me crazy. I don't think it happened a lot but it didn't
happen. I didn't document it so glad you brought it up. Most of the time it
didn't do this. It worked one station then sent a report to the next
station. In many cases on FT4, the second station was still there. That
never happens on FT8.
Jeff, if you are going to use DigiRite outside of contests then you need to
change the exchange in Settings to "Grid Square & db Report". That way
everything flows better and you don't have to use Alternate messages.
I do remember that Alternate messages always seemed to have priority over
what was showing in "Calculated next to send" in my experience. But I agree
that the "machine" seems to do strange things. It could be that it is indeed
doing strange things or else we just don't know it yet.
Don AA5AU
-----Original Message-----
From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
Stai
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2019 2:03 PM
To: Writelog Reflector
Subject: [WriteLog] priority on alternate messages
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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