[Trlog] Exchange not being sent.

[Jim Smith]

I have to agree with Mike here.  I initially found TR to be quite 
mysterious (this has improved to sometimes mysterious).  The contests I 
first went into were all ones with default TR exchanges that made sense. 
 One day I tried to enter a contest for which TR provided no default 
exchange.  Hoo boy, raw welts on the scalp from scratching the head. 
 "What have I done wrong?  Why isn't the exchange working?  It always 
did before."  While it is all in the manual, until you have some 
experience with TR you have no context in which to place all the info.

Now I create my own Input Config Files for every contest and 
deliberately replace TR's defauults with my own, even if they are 
identical.  This way, if TR changes a default sometime down the road I'm 
not going to be suddenly puzzled as to why something which was always 
one thing is now another.

I believe this lack of default exchanges for some contests can cause 
problems for newbies, such as I was, and that this could be fixed with a 
note in the manual.  Something along the lines of, "TR supplies 
appropriate exchanges for several contests.  For others, you will want 
to program your own.  Here's how to do it...... etc."

Hope this helps.

73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO

Mike Gilmer, N2MG wrote:

>What I found frustrating was the TR seemed to NOT populate the exchange
>messages with any default, while some messages (like CQ) were populated.
>
>To those familiar with TR's start-up routine, this is apparently tolerated
>or no longer an issue (they probably use old config files). But to the new
>guy (this was my first ARRL DX with TR), it's just another hurdle!
>
>Mike N2MG
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "k5zm" <k5zm at attbi.com>
>To: "George Fremin III" <geoiii at kkn.net>
>Cc: <trlog at contesting.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 6:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [Trlog] Exchange not being sent.
>
>
>>OK... Are ya ready? Here it comes....
>>
>>D'oh!!!!!  ;)
>>
>>tnx, Geo!
>>
>>*Apparently, I was programming the wrong parts;)
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "George Fremin III" <geoiii at kkn.net>
>>To: "k5zm" <k5zm at attbi.com>
>>Sent: 2003-Feb-22 22:55
>>Subject: Re: [Trlog] Exchange not being sent.
>>
>>
>>>On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:45:24PM -0000, k5zm wrote:
>>>
>>>>I just emptied my deleted items folder, so I hope this hasn't been
>>>>
>>covered
>>
>>>>already. I recently had problems while setting up 6.72 for the ARRL DX
>>>>contest at NQ4I. I couldn't get the program to send the exchange no
>>>>
>>matter
>>
>>>>what I did. It would key the rig just fine. But after sending the F1
>>>>
>>test
>>
>>>>message, all it would do is send whatever call I entered in the call
>>>>
>>window
>>
>>>>and then it just sat there.
>>>>
>>>>I tried ALT P O, ALT P E, ALT P C. None of it would work. I had to
>>>>
>very
>
>>>>reluctantly fall back on Rick's default software. That being CT.
>>>>
>>>ALT-P O
>>>
>>>Then set the CQ Exchange and the S&P Exchange.
>>>
>
>
>
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