[WriteLog] CW Messages for Rover

[Pat Cain K0PC]

Al,

I've used Writelog in MNQP for the last five years. There isn't any 
way to automatically reference the current county defined in the 
Parameter Setup. In spite of that I have a fairly simple & fast way 
to switch counties.

You need to open the Parameter Setup window and the CW Messages 
window so I assigned keyboard shortcuts to get to them fast. I use 
the bracket keys [ and ]  to do this.

I go to the Parameter Setup window and select the new county. Then go 
to the CW messages screen and put the county into one message buffer. 
The other messages that use the county reference that buffer. My 
messages are shown below.

F2: PAT %M9
F4: %B%BK0PC/%M9
F6: /%M9
F9: CRV
F10: %C PAT %M9
F11: CQ MQP K0PC/%M9

You can see that F9 contains the county name and all the other 
messages reference it using %M9.

I think this is faster than reloading Writelog with a new log for 
each county but I haven't tried it. One other advantage to one log is 
the automatic entry of name/qth from past QSOs.

Let me know if you have any questions.

73,
Pat  K0PC



At 10:29 PM 1/12/2009, Aldewey at aol.com wrote:
>I will again be doing a Rover operation for the Minnesota QSO party in
>February.  We will be roving through 21 counties during the 10 
>hour  contest.  Like
>most QSO parties, we are allowed to work the same stations  again when we
>enter a new county.  In the past, I have used NA and set up  individual
>"contests" for each county and started them with a .BAT file as 
>we  entered the new
>county.    This year, I would like to use  Writelog with a SINGLE log.  I see
>that I can accomplish this by  merely selecting Parameter Setup 
>under the Contest
>menu and change the county  when a new one is entered.  It just takes a few
>seconds and the dupe  checking works fine.  That's cool.
>
>So here is my question.  Is there a way that the Function Key CW  messages
>can automatically be changed based on the county 
>selection?  Is  there a way to
>reference the county in the CW messages?  I think the answer  is probably no
>but I thought I would check.  I know I could change them  manually when we
>enter the new county but that takes time.  Another thing I  was 
>thinking of doing
>was setting up 21 WL Contests with  different  messages for each county and
>then merely browse to that contest from CW/RTTY/SSB  messages entry under the
>Setup menu.  Is there any other simple solution  that I am not thinking of?
>
>73,
>
>Al, K0AD   ( Operating as N0PI in MNQP on Feb  7)
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