[Trlog] Sprint CQ using f7/f8

[K4RO Kirk Pickering]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:26:31AM -0800, Tree wrote:
> The program is used in a totally different way in the sprint -
> almost upside down and backwards from how it gets used in the SS.

This has puzzled me for years, and I think I now understand 
why I haven't been able to use Tree's SO2R Sprint method.  
If I understand this correctly, it requires using a visible 
dupe sheet. I am so used to the computer telling me whether 
a call is a dupe, that I never developed dupe sheet reading 
skills. (See KR2Q's recent post on skills of yesterday.)

Also, if I understand this method correctly, it requires that 
you call a station that you just found via S&P by pressing the 
space bar, WITHOUT first typing their call sign. If you do type 
their call first, that call is interpreted as an answer to your 
other radio's CQ.  Do I have this right? In other words, when in 
S&P mode, you have to find a station CQing, determine his call, 
read the dupe sheet, then hit the space bar, correct? I can't 
seem to do that before someone else pounces first.

After a hundreds of thousands of contest QSOs, I seem to be mentally 
programmed to type a call sign the very second that I hear it, and 
that won't work with this method of operating. I don't know if I can 
switch things around, but I'd like to know if my understanding is
correct or not. I spent the first hour of the Sprint figuring out 
that I could not figure it out, but now I think I see why. Maybe?

73

-Kirk  K4RO