[UK-CONTEST] Keyer or Keyboard

[Dave Sergeant]

On 11 Jun 2005 at 9:39, Tim Kirby wrote:

> On 11/06/2005 07:12:01, Peter Hobbs (peter at tilgate.co.uk) wrote:
>  > Has anyone considered making the logger read and enter a keyed call
>  and 
> serial, perhaps with a >confirmatory "intelligent enter" by the other
> hand
> 
> I've not seen this recently, but G3WGV's 'Log' contesting program -
> perhaps 15 years old now has an 'acquisition mode' in it, which does
> exactly this - it enters the call you send into the callsign field. It
> took a while getting used to it, but once you did - it was a lot of
> fun! One of those ideas that was perhaps a little before its' time!

But in many cases by the time you actually send the callsign you will 
have already typed it into the callsign box on the computer. Unless 
you have a good memory in your head for callsigns before you send 
them that is..

A clever idea, which I guess was not taken up by any of the other 
contest software writers.

By the way, further to my previous comment, I am in fact a proficient 
touch typist. But touch typing requires both hands, you cannot 
possibly touch type with a single finger!! I certainly don't call 
myself a top operator (!!) and my remarks about being in the class of 
'do everything with the key' stand. I certainly do not fit in with 
the suggestion that touch typists are better with the keyboard, 
Perhaps that is why I just cannot get the grip of Morserunner which 
forces you to do everything with the keyboard - I keep wondering 
where my key is...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com