[Trlog] Minor bugs in TR 6.78

[Pete Smith]

At 12:52 PM 11/3/03 +0000, kd4d at comcast.net wrote:
>I also believe that the "on-deck" call
>mysteriously got cleared (so the "SPACE" didn't call the
>other station) several times, but I don't know what I did to
>cause it.


I saw this too.  Not to push the analogy too far, but contest logging 
software is a little like military equipment -- it has to work well even 
when the operator is tired or otherwise not thinking straight.  My failures 
of this sort always happened when I had unwisely hit too many ESCs after an 
unsuccessful second radio call, often after hitting F1 a couple of 
additional times.  The only cure was to do another Alt-D and re-enter the 
call.  I wonder if this might be prevented by not allowing ESC to clear the 
Alt-D "sub"-memory somehow, or limiting the number of ESCs that are 
interpreted when in Alt-D second radio mode.


>2. SCP is broken.  It doesn't show some duplicate calls.  The
>Alt-D or space bar dupe checks beep and show the dupe, but the
>call never shows up in the SCP window.  Specifically, W9CO,
>K0PY, K6OY, KB9AX never showed up after I worked them.  N9CO
>did.  I rely on that.  When I start typing a call, if it comes
>up RED in the SCP window, I quit typing it and move on.  With
>this bug, I have to enter the full callsign and do a dupe check.
>I tried deleting restart.bin and restarting.  That didn't help.


Yep, me too.  Like Mark, I rely on the visual cue of the dupe call color to 
tell me it's a dupe -- and I don't run the beep.  I never (almost never) 
use the space bar to dupe a call.  I only encountered this with the Alt-D 
checks, but it happened a lot.  Hopefully, naming the specific calls will 
make it easy to find.

Other little things -- the frequency display for the second radio (Kenwood 
protocol, TS-930/PIEXX) blinked intermittently throughout the contest, but 
never (so far as I know) messed up the log -- I saw one NONCW pass by very 
briefly.  I was not testing message length from the Kenwood, and perhaps 
that was the cause (I couldn't find the command name for that test in the 
heat of battle)


73, Pete N4ZR
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