[WriteLog] Wish & Bug List

[Marty Tippin]

At 06:50 PM 12/15/2002, Richard Zalewski wrote:
>1.  It would be nice to have the F12 key clear the call entry window.
>Situation- your running, you click on a spot to try to pick up a mult or
>station, the call of that station is put in the entry log, but now you don't
>work him and you want to return to your run freq.  Not a biggie but it would
>be nice if the F12 would clear the log entry window.

Alt-W is pretty easy to use and works fine for me. But I don't bounce 
around between frequencies that much. (In fact, I found it a bit refreshing 
to work the entire 10m contest without using packet spots at all!)

>2.  I am still having problems with my freq display showing NO RIG for an
>instant after I transmit.  It does return to the correct freq but for just
>an instant I get the annoying display.

95% chance that you're getting RF into the rig control serial line. Reduce 
power and/or transmit into a dummy load and see if the problem goes away. 
If so, tackle it like any other RFI problem.

>4.  Need to improve the logic on spots showing in the packet spots window.
>For example- I worked KH6GMP/KH3 but when KH3/KH6GMP showed up as a spot it
>showed that I needed it.  This also goes for the /QRP and /P and /M.

It would certainly be nice if WriteLog knew that a portable station logged 
KH3/whatever was the same as whatever/KH3. I'd even take it so far as to 
ask for WriteLog to use the "root" callsign in supercheck partial -- that 
way if I all I get the first time is "KHsomethingMP/KH3" there's a good 
chance it'll match KH6GMP and I can go back to the caller with the correct 
callsign.

There's no need to log /qrp /p or /m - Those aren't valid prefixes and do 
nothing for your score except confuse the log checking computer. I don't 
know why stations insist on telling that they're mobile or portable or qrp 
- it's irrelevant information.

-Marty NW0L