[RTTY] [CQ-Contest] [WriteLog] Suggestions for RTTY RU

Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net
Mon Jan 3 13:04:05 PST 2011


Actually, it is even easier than that in most cases with WL, Tom. If 
your call is in the SCP database, it is highlighted anyway and would 
be automatically transferred to the "hiscall" field when I hit the 
proper macro key - no "clicking on it" is normally required.

Jerry W4UK

At 03:52 PM 1/3/2011, Tom Osborne wrote:
>If you are using WL, and I say 'TU W7WHY CQ', can't you just click on my
>callsign and put it in the logger?  73
>Tom W7WHY
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>To help out our brothers that use Writelog I will put the DE before my
>call.  But I will only put the DE in my CQ
>and my TU key.  The DE should not be necessary when you send the report
>anyway and should avoid the problem of 599 CO  DE KT0DX. (Is he in
>Colorado or Delaware)
>
>Steve
>KT0DX
>
>On 1/2/2011 20:01, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Jerry Flanders<jeflanders at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the reminder and tips. Let me add one additional tip: Many
> >> of us think the "DE" is not necessary, and can even be confusing when
> >> copy is difficult because DE = DELAWARE.  I haven't sent a DE in
> >> years in a RTTY contest, and have had no problems because of it.
> > DE is necessary if you are NOT using a "super check partial" database
> > in WriteLog.   WriteLog will only highlight calls if they are in SCP
> > or are preceded by "DE"
> >
> > 73 - Jim AD1C
> >
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