[WriteLog] Two cw enhancements needed!

[n5po@juno.com]

I have also noticed the action of  F12 (which I don't care for)...I think
hitting
F12 takes you back to the freq of the last worked contact?????


On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:17:48 -0500 "Art Wildblood" <artw4aa@aug.com>
writes:
> I don't know about the other modes, but I believe two enhancements 
> are
> needed for cw ops:
> 
> 1) Provide a prosign for the "error character" (8 dits).  I couldn't 
> find
> one, so I tried to make one, viz: a) 8 "e" characters, but it wasn't 
> right
> because of the character spacing, b) same as "a", but with 
> accelerators
> before and after the 8 "e" characters, but it wasn't right because 
> the dits
> were way too short, and c) two "h" characters, but that wasn't right 
> because
> of the character spacing between the two h's.  This is needed, as 
> suggested
> by the Sprint sponsor, to indicate the other op's report was not 
> fully
> received, before others jump on the frequency.
> 
> 2) After selecting a call from the Super Check Partial window, the
> focus/cursor should move to the next logical field in the Entry 
> window, just
> as if the call had been typed into the Entry window.  In the case of 
> the
> ARRL CW DX contest, the focus/cursor should move to the power 
> field.
> 
> Query:  What's going on with F12?  I'm set up with CT compatibility, 
> even
> though I never used CT.  Several times I hit F12 by mistake, while 
> aiming
> for F11 to clear the Entry window.  The radio switched to some other 
> band
> (damn!).  This might be useful, if I knew the logic of the QSY.  
> I'm
> guessing it has something to do with SO2, right?
> 
> Thanks, Art/W4AA
> 
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