[RTTY] Enter in macro's

[John Becker]

I to have been a proponent also since I still use a TTY machine.
I guess I don't have to say what happens after the 73rd letter 
on the paper of these things.


At 09:30 PM 11/12/2006, you wrote:
>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