[CQ-Contest] (no subject)

[jpescatore at aol.com]

Steve N2IC says "Please explain the circumstances that N1MM doesn't put you into run mode immediately."
The obvious answer is when you don't use F1 or any other key to let the software know  you are running. For me that happens in SSB contests.
I'm not much of a phone contester and every time I try to build a library of voice messages either I screw it up and it sounds crappy or Windows changes sound cards or file paths - I don't often use .wav files/Fkeys in SSB.
I do leave Spot All when S&P on and occasionally screw up when I am flying along in a S&P rhythm where every ALT-A finds someone just finishing calling CQ, and then hit an abandoned run freq and I will do the QRL thing and start calling CQ without remembering to let the software know. 
Not blaming the software, purely my bad. I usually notice very quickly just by the rate jumping from zero too fast and look at the radio buttons in the Entry window and go oops. 
Its embarrassing, but to me less embarrassing than sending out really crappy recorded messages all contest long, My New Year's resolution will be to dust off Audacity, make a good set of files and start 2023 off right. That will mean I'll even be able to turn ESM back on in SSB tests without crashing the software after every QSO - at least until the first non-well behaved Windows update...
73 John K3TN