[RTTY] Post Roundup comments

[Jim W7RY]

Oh... And one more thing Gary...


If you were using N1MM, no need to shut down. Just right click on the macro 
area and make the change in the time it takes to type it.

But N1MM makes rocket science about the "next" command where Writelog just 
handles it.

;)

73
Jim W7RY


(sorry It was Jerry I was talking to about AL9A being in IN or IL).



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From: "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:58 PM
To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>
Cc: <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Post Roundup comments

> One of those clueless guys was me. I didn't realize the AL was Alaska
> at first. I must have been one of the later ones to ask because you
> already had the "alaska DX" macro ready to go for me.
>
> You were my ONLY Alaska QSO, IIRC. Thanks for the Q and the mult.
>
> Jerry W4UK
>
> At 06:44 PM 1/10/2011, you wrote:
>>I also had a station give me 'NNJ' as his state.  Rather than get into an
>>exchange over the proper report I just entered 'NJ' in the log.  I also 
>>had
>>several stations ask "STATE? STATE?"after I sent them a serial number so
>>apparently they either did not read the rules or the '9' in AL9A threw 
>>them
>>off.  You would think getting a number instead of a state would be a clue!
>>Of course the important thing to look for is the 'L' which is only in AK
>>calls.
>>
>>All of my WL macros were already programmed with contest messages so I had
>>to keyboard "AK is DX" a few times.  In frustration I finally programmed a
>>memory location in my microKEYER II to say "ALASKA ALASKA DX DX".  Then 
>>when
>>I got a request for STATE? or QTH? I just reached over to the MKII 
>>keyboard
>>and hit the proper F key.  The only bummer here was I had to shut down WL
>>for a few minutes while I created the macro for the MKII.  If left running
>>WL interferes with saving the macro in Router.
>>
>>73,
>>Gary AL9A
>
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