[RTTY] Enter in macro's

[Tom Osborne]

Hi all

I have always been a proponent of adding the {ENTER} at the beginning and 
end and of the F2 or F4 macro's.  I now see what other people are talking 
about when they say to leave them out.

When running 2 radios, I have 8 windows open on the screen.  That means that 
the Digital 1 and Digital 2 windows are not very big.  I notice that some 
people put 2 or even 3 {ENTER} at the end of their macro's.  If band 
conditions are really bad, like this weekend, I may not get your callsign 
the first time.  When it finally
prints right and I get ready to click on it, it jumps up 2 or 3 lines and is 
gone.  Same way with the report.  An {ENTER} at the beginning is not bad, 
but not at the end.

I tried just putting 3 or 4 spaces at the end of my F4 and F2 macro's and it 
seems to work pretty well.

It looks nice to have a clean window to start printing the other station, 
but if there are just a few spaces at the end of the macro, that works just 
as well.  IMHO.  73

Tom W7WHY