[RTTY] WAE and RTTY

[David Levine]

Thanks Rick for the reply and all the hard work.

I fired up N1MM to see what I didn't notice during the contest. I'm
familiar with the large DUPE that shows up and was wondering what I missed
on the QTCs in the entry window. I entered in the call of a station I
exchanged QTCs with on another band and it took a bit but I did notice the
QTCs: 0/10/343 change to QTCs: 10/10/342. Is that the only indication or am
I missing something else? Since I'm mainly a ESM mouse user, I'm not
usually interacting and focused on the entry window in a RTTY contest
beyond making sure the exchange was properly processed so maybe a slight UI
modification can make it more obvious I shouldn't ask for QTCs again.

Many thanks!
K2DSL - David

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Rick Ellison <rellison at twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> I needed to edit the QTC header window a few times and clicking in there
> clears that entry field. It might be nice to have it just be editable
> without clearing.
> >
> This is on my list to correct.. I received a couple of emails on this
> during
> the weekend...
> >
>
> It might be worth displaying a dialog box when pressing Ctrl-Z when you've
> already exchanged QTCs. Right now pressing Ctrl-Z just seems to result in
> nothing happening.
> >
> On the entry Window it shows if you have exchanged QTC with the station and
> how many and how many total QTC's you have left to send..
> If the QTC window does not open it means that you can't exchange or do not
> have any QTC to exchange with that station and just move on. No sense of
> opening something if it can't be used..
>
>
>
>
> 73 Rick N2AMG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of David Levine
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 4:41 PM
> To: Dick White
> Cc: RTTY, Contesting
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] WAE and RTTY
>
> Dick,
>
> Specifically on holding the "screen", if you click on the very left thin
> green bar that goes down the left of the MMTTY screen, it will change to
> yellow and stop scrolling. It seems to continue to capture any "print"
> coming in, but the screen stays frozen until you click again.
>
> For me, QTCs worked fine dozens of times except once. I was receiving a
> batch and clicked to Save them and N1MM errored out. I needed to go back
> and
> do them all again after launching N1MM and opening up MMTTY's log it saves.
> The QTC window seemed to automatically do a "paste" when I copied from the
> MMTTY notepad window and clicked in the appropriate QTC window.
>
> I needed to edit the QTC header window a few times and clicking in there
> clears that entry field. It might be nice to have it just be editable
> without clearing.
>
> The only other oddity I noticed was for some stations that I worked on 1
> band and had QTCs with, when I worked them on a 2nd band the QTCs didn't
> show in the log window so I asked to send/receive QTCs and they said I
> already had. It had a couple of times and I didn't come up with some
> repeatable steps.
>
> It might be worth displaying a dialog box when pressing Ctrl-Z when you've
> already exchanged QTCs. Right now pressing Ctrl-Z just seems to result in
> nothing happening.
>
> I did appreciate the colors in the N1MM bandmap, but I'd rather see a NA
> station I can't exchange QTCs with be represented as worked in the bandmap
> just like a non-NA station I already exchanged QTCs with. In the release I
> used, they show as purple even though I could never exchange QTCs. Just
> show
> as worked and be done.
>
> I do enjoy the WAE RTTY though as a nice change of pace.
>
> David - K2DSL
>