[WriteLog] changing from CW to RTTY

[David Hachadorian]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Moore" <wx4tm at tm-moore.com>
To: "Writelog" <Writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:48 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] changing from CW to RTTY


> Using the Field Day contest module. Can anyone recommend a 
> good way to
> change from CW to RTTY and back. We anticipate cking RTTY 
> top of ea hour and
> need an easy way to switch back and forth and to maintain 
> the same log. I
> can make a separte contest module for each but that won't 
> give me a
> 'concurrent' log.. Yes, I can always merge them later. and 
> I need control
> characters (%R%E etc) for RTTY (the % puts in AR when 
> trying to use that in
> CW) so I have to use separate cw/rtty/ssb entries. I could 
> use the same msgs
> but would have to manually hit the ESC key to end 
> transmission each time..
> Just trying to minimize new operator 
> input/knowledge/keying for the FD
> operation.  Any thoughts?
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Well, you could dedicate several F-keys to RTTY, such as:

cq
hiscall+exchange
tu%L
mycall

These F-keys would have the required %E, etc for rtty.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ










































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