[ct-user] Something Burning?
Bob Naumann - N5NJ
Bob Naumann - N5NJ" <n5nj@gte.net
Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:57:29 -0000
This would work Ed, but just the period key does radio 1/2 switching
now. This is the problem.
If you needed the Alt key with the period, this would not be a
problem. Also, when you're actually using two radios, this is not a
problem as you'll switch to the other radio every time you do this by
mistake and it becomes very obvious what you've done.
This occurred most often at our station when trying to qsy via the
keyboard entering the period in the frequency i.e.; 14150.7 etc. This
shifts the computer into "radio 2" and who-knows-what shows up on the
callsign entry field and the radio goes to 20 meters and of course,
the operators did not understand why this happened.
The change of the "1" to a "2" in the RADIO 1 / RADIO 2 display box is
not very noticeable. Perhaps if the Radio 2 box displayed to the
right of the clock instead of the left in the same position as Radio
1? The movement would catch your eye for sure.
I'd like to be able to select alt-period to do two radio switching or
preferably the program should ignore presses of the period key if
there is only 1 radio.
CT should not be in radio-1 or radio-2 modes if there's only one
radio. In other words, the display of radio 1 or radio 2 is useless
if you only have one radio.
The radio 1 display also confused some of the operators thinking that
the Station number was set the same on both computers in our
multi-single two computer setup.
Robert E. Naumann
N5NJ / V26O
N5NJ@arrl.net
www.qsl.net/n5nj
Plano, TX USA
ex KR2J, V26RN, W6V, WA2OVE
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Parish K1EP <k1ep@brownell.com>
To: Bob Naumann - N5NJ <n5nj@gte.net>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 12:41
Subject: Re: [ct-user] Something Burning?
> There is a very easy solution to this. Use the define key function
to redefine ALT-Period to something else, like ALT-Comma. Then you
will never be able to change to radio 2. I find it helpful to be able
to change to radio 2. For instance, this weekend we were working
multi-single. We used OPON to change ops. At times there was
something in the callsign field that I didn't want to remove when I
was to sign on. So I just went to radio 2, did an OPON and then back
to radio1. Sorta like a scratch pad. I did however get burned once
or twice by hitting radio 2 by mistake, but realized it quickly.
>
> At 01:44 AM 3/6/2000 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >I think Dave has determined the major cause of this which is
> >inadvertent changing to radio 2 by pressing a period - it's not
> >Alt-period any more. This happened numerous times this past
weekend
> >and each time, the screen showed radio 2.
> >
> >I think the program should not permit changing to radio 2 if you
don't
> >have a radio 2 configured.
> >
> >Also, optionally requiring the Alt key combination would help too.
> >
> >73,
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >Robert E. Naumann
> >N5NJ / V26O
> >N5NJ@arrl.net
> >www.qsl.net/n5nj
> >Plano, TX USA
> >ex KR2J, V26RN, W6V, WA2OVE
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Ken Wolff <kwolff@ultranet.com>
> >To: CT-User <ct-user@contesting.com>; Fred W Hoffert
<cwman@juno.com>
> >Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 16:17
> >Subject: RE: [ct-user] Something Burning?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Fred and Everyone Else Who is Losing Radio Control During the
> >Contest,
> >>
> >> 1. Was a reboot of CT insufficient?
> >> 2. Is a unload/reload cycle of the COMTSR's insufficient? My
best
> >guess is
> >> that the COMTSR is hung.
> >> 3. Are you using K1TTT's ethernet stuff?
> >> 4. When you lose control, can you still send a frequency to the
> >radio, but
> >> lose the ability to receive info from the radio?
> >> 5. Has anyone lost radio control using the Windows character mode
> >version?
> >>
> >> I am very concerned about this. If you have had trouble with
radios
> >losing
> >> touch, please send me a description of your setup, batch files
for
> >starting
> >> CT.
> >>
> >> Thanks - Ken
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-ct-user@contesting.com
> >[mailto:owner-ct-user@contesting.com] On
> >> Behalf Of Fred W Hoffert
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 10:38 AM
> >> To: alsopb@gloryroad.net
> >> Cc: ct-user@contesting.com
> >> Subject: Re: [ct-user] Something Burning?
> >>
> >>
> >> Band map or no band map, my radio (Icom 765) and computer stop
> >> communicating from time to time during contests. Rebooting is
the
> >> answer. At least the computer is faster now. In the old days I
> >could
> >> eat a full meal during the reboot (real bonus really). Bad part,
as
> >> noted below, is that the spots disappear.
> >>
> >> 73,
> >>
> >> Fred/NA2U
> >> CWMAN...I'D RATHER WORK CW!!!
> >> "Je mange donc je suis."
> >> "Good wine is a necessity of life for me."--Thomas Jefferson
> >>
> >> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:14:47 +0000 alsopb <alsopb@gloryroad.net>
> >writes:
> >> >
> >> > Band map never has worked right on my TS450 or TS850. It keeps
> >> > getting hung up. Just going to the band map and selecting a
> >station
> >> >
> >> > also hangs the Alt-A window so you can't grab a spot from
there.
> >> > The
> >> > only solution I found was to exit the program and thus loose
all
> >the
> >> > spots.
> >> >
> >> > For some reason, there is a state of denial of this issue.
> >> >
> >> > 73 de Brian/K3KO
> >> >
> >> > > At at least one operating position (involving a TS850) the
band
> >> > map
> >> > > wasn;t working right. When you selected a spot off the band
map,
> >> > > it would select a different spot and frequency and set the
radio
> >> > to
> >> > > the frequency of the wrong spot. As I avoided use of this
> >feature
> >> > for
> >> > > the rest of the contest (I hate bugs) I don't know how many
>
> >other
> >> > > postions had this problem. Others were using the band map
> >> > > features a lot without a problem.
> >> > >
> >> >
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