[WriteLog] Bandmap loading and SO2R

WA9ALS - John wa9als@starband.net
Fri, 31 May 2002 07:23:07 -0500


Maybe this is one of the reasons Don likes 2 computers instead of 1 to make
2 independent stations?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <nr1dx@arrl.net>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Bandmap loading and SO2R


> Here is what I want to do:
>
> CW contest, running Single  OP with 2 radios, Unassited (i.e. no packet)
>
> While calling CQ on RADIO-ONE, I tune around on another band with
RADIO-TWO,
>
> As  I hear stations on RADIO-TWO , I want to "load" them into the  Bandmap
> , so I can come back and pick them off at my leisure. for the band that
> RADIO 2 is ON. The only way I have found so far to do this is  to click
the
> <FILE> tab on the BANDMAP for RADIO-TWO and enter both the CALL and the
> FREQUENCY manually. There has to be a better way. This an awful lot of
> typing to put a station on the bandmap without disrupting the CQ on the
RUN
> radio
>
> I tried to <SHIFT><ARROW-DOWN>, which allows me to enter the call into the
> exchange window for RADIO-TWO with out disrupting the CQ on RADIO-ONE, but
> if I try to right click on the call in the entry window for RADIO-TWO to
> automatically load the call and the frequency to the Bandmap, it stops the
> CQ on RADIO-ONE.and moves the focus to RADIO-TWO
>
> Like wise once I have a group of stations loaded in RADIO-TWOs bandmap it
> would be nice to be able to QSY RADIO-TWO and load the call sign into the
> entry window by "one" click on the callsign in the bandmap WITHOUT
stopping
> the CQ on RADIO-ONE.
>
> Last weekend in the WPX was my first real contest with the software, as a
> relative new user to wWritelog SO2R , what did I miss here????
>
>
> Dave
> NR1DX
> nr1dx@arrl.net
>
> "A man who picks a cat up by the tail learns a lesson he can learn no
other
> way" .... Mark Twain
>
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