[WriteLog] SO2R Question

[Clive Whelan]

Dick and Randy


Oh I had done everything else as you outlined *except* crucially check the 
auto resume box. Seems pretty obvious I know, but I had told myself that the 
box which says AUTO CQ  next to the speed indication *was* auto resume which I 
now see is garbage! This is at least in part the mindset of a migrated TR 
user, where that additional step is not required. I think it is as Randy says 
about the mouse wheel function, that *this* topic also deserves more attention 
than it gets in the documentation. However since this is unlikely to occur I 
wonder whether Scot/K9JY might pick up on it for his excellent pages? Now can 
we rerun the CQ contest please so I can pick up some of those mults that I 
missed on the second radio!


Think you can relax now? forget it!

Now I'd like to pose a more operational question, which might come under the 
heading of privileged information; if so I will QSY. Do you SO2R gurus 
actually use the split headphone function? I have been doing so , even with my 
home brew switch box under TR, but confess I have never been entirely happy 
with my ability to copy weaker callers ( say S5 ish) on the run radio. Now in 
W5XD keyer auto mode it is much more difficult to quickly switch to both ears 
in the run radio( unless I am being dull again?), Ctrl M, AltR, N.... jeez, or 
mouse control.

Of course WL makes this much more efficient with the latch facility, but even 
so....... I have begun to believe that this may not be the best way to go, and 
"normal" headphone operation from the Radio menu in conjunction with the Ctrl 
X latch facility may be preferable. There is a price to be paid of course, 
which is that period between auto CQs ( say) 1.5 secs, when you are locked out 
of the S&P radio if there are no callers. I begin to think that this may be a 
good trade off however. Waddya all reckon?


73
Clive
GW3NJW

 
 Dick Green wrote:
> Now, why is AUTO RESUME not working? I assume that you have properly set a
> Timed CQ and have checked the AUTO RESUME box. Have you also defined the
> correct CQ function key in the Timed CQ dialog box. If so, then it could be
> that the AUTO RESUME feature only works in CT compatibility mode. That's
> what I use: F1 is the CQ key and the message is stored in F10. How do you
> have the CQ key defined?
>

Randy wrote

> It does work correctly for me.  You do have to have Auto Resume checked.
> 
> These features were a critical component of my success in CQWW CW.  I can
> attest that the WriteLog + W5XD keyer SO2R support are the reason that I may
> have won the USA SOAB category.  Please don't ask Wayne to change anything!!
> 
> That said, it does take some experimentation and practice to get truly
> proficient at all the modes the WL can present.
>

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