[RTTY] Multi function mice

[Terry Dunlap]

As a sometimes RTTY contester I've been meaning to ask this question for 
a long time.  I find it slows me down to move back and forth from the 
keyboard to the mouse so I spend most of my time using the keyboard 
whenever possible, including typing in calls.

N1MM is my contesting software of choice.  Do most of you use the mouse 
to click on calls and function keys or what is your normal process?

73 de Terry KK6T


W70m at aol.com wrote:
> Phil
>  
> Mark sent me the note below.  I am pretty sure others are  having success 
> as well.  So will look at multi-functional programmable mice  for the shack 
> here.
>  
> 73
>  
> Rod  W7OM
>  
> I use a fairly simple one, with one button (as well as pressing the wheel)  
> for ESC and the
> other extra button for ALT-W (clear callsign in  N1MM).  I find I've become 
> so ingrained
> with hitting ESC on the  keyboard that I don't use it as much as I thought. 
> With N1MM
> and ESM,  with right click sends enter, most of the actions are driven from 
> the mouse  so
> I don't usually use the keyboard for anything except odd calls that call  
> parsing did not
> decode or of course ESC.
>
> I use a Logitech  USB  MX518 mouse.  I also used a wireless microsoft mouse 
> but  it
> was a 27Mhz variety and seemed to get confused sometimes.
>
> Mark  n2qt
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 2/17/2010 9:15:56 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
> pcooper at guernsey.net writes:
>
> Hi Rod  and the group,
>
> Rod, if you get any useful answers, I would be  interested too!
> As part of myshack upgrade to Win7, I found that I needed  to get a better
> mouse than the old ball-style mouse I had  previously.
> The new one I have is seemingly for gamers, but works amazingly  well, and
> has 7 or 8 configurable buttons.
> As yet, I have not even  contemplated looking at this possibility, although
> it had crossed my mind  when I bought it.
>
> Could be useful!
>
> 73 all
>
> Phil  GU0SUP
>
>
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