[WriteLog] Makrothen bugs

[Doug Nelson]

Don Cassel wrote:
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> I worked the Makrothen RTTY contest this weekend and ran into a few problems
> in Writelog 10.61E. Some stations sent their grid with a hyphen as in
> FN03-FN03. When clicking on this it replaces the callsign in the QSO entry
> window. This is not the same behaviour I see in other contests.
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> Calls in the Rttyrite window are never highlighted. Even those that are
> preceded with a DE. This is also behaviour not seen in most other contests
> although I did notice it happening quite often in the CQWW RTTY.
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> Calls that appear in the bandmap from the cluster do not show when they are
> dups. This means it is necessary to enter them in the entry window to dup
> check before calling the station.
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> Hopefully these problems can be fixed by next year.
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> 73, Don VE3XD
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> *Don...don't count on it. The Makrothen module has been plagued with these problems since day one and have been reported many times. Various workarounds have been reported and tried with success and failure. I work all the RTTY contests and no other module behaves in this manner. Another quirk here (and others have reported it also) is clicking on a call in the bandmap puts my Icom 756pro into CW mode. *
    While we all appreciate the efforts of contest module authors, this 
being the 3rd (maybe 4th) year of this contest, it seems reasonable that 
this module should
    now work properly. Frankly, the only reason I bothered with the 
Makrothen this weekend was to test a new amp in contest conditions.  
This is not a                Writelog  problem. It is  unlikely that I 
will participate in future Makrothen contests until a bug free module is 
available.

    I see that while writing this, a number of  similar comments have 
been posted to the reflector.

    Doug....K6HGF


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