[CQ-Contest] SP/RAC

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

Sorry Scott– My bad…..was typing from memory (wasn’t in the shack)

It’s ALT+F- then 2 (two key strokes—not a combo thereof)

 

What you are doing is going into your recent files (contests) and picking off the 2nd contest you have open.

 

When you wanna go back, do it again.

 

You can do it all by mouse, too, if you’re a mouse kinda guy.

 

Mike VE9AA

 

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

 

From: K9MA [mailto:k9ma at sdellington.us] 
Sent: December 28, 2019 1:27 PM
To: Mike Smith VE9AA
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SP/RAC

 

Hi Mike,

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but alt-2 doesn't seem to work. Did you have to write a macro for that?

 

It's probably too slow, anyway. I think I'll just use paper and pencil for any RAC folks who call in. All I have to write down is time, call, and maybe S/N.

 

73,

Scott K9MA

 

 

On 12/28/2019 06:35, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:

Hey Scott
 
 
 
Personally, I am gg to try and avoid making "overlapping" contacts in both
contests, however should you find yourself in that position, here's what I
do on casual weekends where there might be 2 contests I *DO* wish to play
in.
 
 
 
I only know N1MM+ logger, so here's what I would do.
 
 
 
Set up for the RAC test.
 
Start another log for the SPTDC test.
 
 
 
Enter whichever contest I am actually playing in.  Run.
 
When confronted with a S&P-er giving me 2 reports like could happen this
weekend, I give them the main report
 
and hit a very quick ALT-2 to jump the logger over to the 'other' contest
and then give them a report in the 2nd contest.
 
 
 
Depending on whether you're connected to a cluster (most won't be in the
SPTDC) and whether you're using a call history and the # of Q's in your
database, the switchover can be as much as 1-2 seconds, so it's certainly
not quick. At least on my 10 year old laptop it's not quick.
 
 
 
It's much easier to do this manoeuver as a S&P-er and it's vy time consuming
as a runner to have to deal with , but it is doable if you are so inclined.
 
 
 
Like I said..I am going to avoid it at all costs, hi !
 
 
 
CU in one *OR* the other this weekend.  I'm only dabbling in both.
 
 
 
Mike VE9AA "NB" -or- "FN66"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mike, Coreen & Corey
 
Keswick Ridge, NB
 
 
 
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