[UK-CONTEST] F Key Messages

[G3SJJ]

Paul, I think I can see where the problem is.

Like Dave says, the "Industry Standard" is Insert for Run which normally 
picks up the content of F5 (His Call) and content of F2 (Exchange). F3 
is TU + Own Call same as you have, which is also picked up by the big 
Plus key which logs the conatact also, F4 is always Own Call and F5 is 
Other Call.

For S&P, I would hit F2 to send the Exchange unless the other station 
had my callsign wrong, in which case I would do F4 then F2. Simple 
enough. I guess anyone used to CT/Wintest/Writelog/N1MM would then be 
guilty of what I complained about when using SD!

I guess it is a matter of the user just modifying the content of the F 
Keys to suit what they are comfortable with. I put Exchange plus TU in 
F8 because sometimes it is just nice to send a TU if you think you are 
not taking up too much of the other guy's time. In reality I probably 
send taht kind of stuff on the external keyer as well.

Presumably on SSB your F2 doesn't take any notice of the Other Call part 
of that message?

Chris G3SJJ


Paul O'Kane wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dave Lawley" <g4buo at compuserve.com>
> 
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>>For a CT/Win-Test user it's simple. If you're S+P you use F2,
>>if you're CQing you use Insert.
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>Here's what SD uses
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>CQing:  F1 - CQ
>        F2 - Other call + Exchange, 
>        F3 - TU + own Call
>        F4 - the "dupe" message, normally same as F2
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>S&P     F5 - Own call
>        F6 - Exchange (no callsigns
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