[Trlog] Sprint CQ using f7/f8

Tree tree at kkn.net
Tue Feb 13 12:36:29 EST 2007


On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:36:35AM -0600, K4RO Kirk Pickering wrote:
> 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.

By George!!!  I think he's got it!!

Tree


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