[WriteLog] Sweepstakes CW Review

[Garry Shapiro]

Same observation and complaint from this new/recent user! Finally figured out
that after entering the two-digit CHECK you are automatically in SECTION, but
the penalty for being wrong was often to lose the SECTION entry (YIKES, was that
guy in NC or TN?) and/or have a digit appended to NUMBER. It was maddening and
time-wasting! Is there an option for doing this some other way? Saving a
keystroke is attractive, but, as Dick suggests, entry consistency is a virtue,
especially when one is sleep-deprived  and therefore less than fully focussed.

I also, too close to the start of the SS, decided to configure the .ini for CT
emulation. I found that some of the functions (e.g. adding CQing from F1)
worked, and some did not, despite careful verbatim entry of the .ini commands in
CONFIGURATION. Happily, this did not create any serious problems, or at least
not that I noticed.

I also noted some stuttering of  my transmitted CQ's and memories (actually,
delays, more like stretched-tape wow), and not just after SAVE's. Sometimes, the
buggered exchange info induced a request for a repeat---not good. No, I was not
using a 25 MHz AT, but a 550 MHz P3, and no, I used no USB peripherals.
Waitaminnit--I had a SanDisk digital camera memory reader attached to one USB
port. Anyone else have this problem?

On a positive note, I appreciated the TX lockout on dupes, especially late in
the contest, S&Ping, when 80% of CQ's found were dupes.

Garry, NI6T

Richard Zalewski wrote:

> It may be me but here is one observation that drove me nuts during SS CW.
>
> I am running and calling CQ.  A station calls me.  I enter the call in the
> call window.  Then I am supposed to use the space bar to navigate the
> exchange.  So I space bar to the number field.  Enter the number.  Space bar
> to Precedent.  Enter it.  Space bar to Check.  Enter it.  Space bar to
> Section.  WRONG!!!  If you do you wind up in the Call window with an Unknown
> Mult error.  So then you want to get back on track and get to section again.
> So FOUR!!! space bars later you are in Section.
>
> This is not good.  Maybe ok when you are fresh in the contest but later on
> it just doesn't cut it.  So what are you supposed to do?  Use combinations
> of the space bar and tab?  Not good!  The space bar should cycle you through
> the exchange and cycle completely and the same everytime.
>
> Make sense?
>
> I hope so.
>
> 73 Dick W7ZR
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