[TRLog] keyboard input

Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:13:49 -0600

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On 24 Aug 99, at 7:32, DAVID W WOOD wrote:

> Does anyone apart from DOC use the keypad cw message facility?
> inputting serials # is MUCH quicker using the numeric keypad.
> 

1. The ordinary number keys are in the same position on every keyboard; 
keypads are usually stuck over to the right somewhere, past some 
indeterminate number of cursor keys, etc.

2. I can reach the ordinary number keys without lifting my hands from the 
home position; to get to the number pad I have to move my hands.

3. Many contests don't use serial numbers; I (speaking just for myself) 
find it much easier to have the number pad programmed with a set pattern of 
messages for every contest than to use the pad only for a few contests.

4. It's much easier to hit the big fat 0 on the number pad when I want to 
send my call than it is to mess around trying to find the right function 
key somewhere at the top of the keyboad.

But everyone has their own way of doing these things. It's nice that TR 
lets most of us do most things "our" way most of the time. It only gets 
irritating when it DOESN'T let me work the way I want to. 

  73 -- Doc  N7DR

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D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ                      N7DR@arrl.net

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