[WriteLog] Delayed repeat CQ

[Jim Smith]

Did some playing around with this as I received a number of messages 
expressing contrary opinions.  First of all, I only use WL for RTTY so I 
have no knowledge of how it behaves with cw or phone.  I use RITTY, not 
MMTTY.  My RTTY WPX CQ message takes about 4 seconds to complete.  So, 
for fun, I just now set ALT T to give me a 2 second pause and hit F2.  
The 4 second CQ message runs to completion, there's a 2 second pause and 
the cycle repeats until I shut it off.  So, for my setup, ALT T works as 
I described.  Other setups may well require that ALT T time needs to be 
message time plus desired pause time.

I guess I misunderstood the part about hitting ALT T twice.  I thought 
that doing this would pop up a little window with just the pause time 
setting.  While my CQ was running I hit ALT T twice to see what would 
happen.  After the first hit the regular ALT T window opened and nothing 
happened with the 2nd hit.  It's clear now that what was meant was if 
one hits ALT T again after setting the Auto CQ going that one can then 
change the items in the window.

73 de Jim Smith   VE7FO

Jim Smith wrote:

> That's funny, I just set the time to the length of the pause and it 
> seems to work as I expect.  I often set it to 3 sec and that's the 
> length of the pause I get.
>
> Didn't know about hitting ALT T twice.  Thanks
>
> 73 de Jim Smith   VE7FO
>
> Ron St.Laurent ND5S wrote:
>
>> set the time to EQUAL both the transmission plus the pause.
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