[WriteLog] More 10-Meter RTTY questions

[Alan Marshall]

Hi again Don,

Well, the situation I find myself in is where there is no programmed message
for a particular data message sequence as if the full exchange is not
wanted.  For instance I want to send a short one by one call for some
situation but want to repeat my call several times in another, perhaps just
sending the suffix to W1 to make sure my contact gets my call correctly.  In
CW this happens often.  My call has CCE as a suffix and many times they get
just the CC and not the E.  In rtty it is not quite the same but with
flutter over the pole you do often get an adjacent character decoded.  With
the call sent twice you can sometimes get the correct one by judging the
signal quality in real-time.  But you can get the same error twice.  Thus 3
times usually will resolve the issue.  But it is not fool-proof.  Anyway
when the signal quality is poor sending the call several times will get it
across.  (I know I am preaching to the choir.)

As you do point out the place where it is rather useful is in general
conversation rather than in contests.  I do use Writelog as my general
logger and there would be very useful.

OK, enough noise!  I just wondered if I had done something wrong like forgot
to set something in the writelog.ini file.  I guess the real answer is no,
it just works that way!

Thanks for the bandwidth everyone.

    -Alan, W1CCE

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au at bellsouth.net>
To: "'Alan Marshall'" <acm at ultranet.com>; "'Tom Carrubba KA2D'"
<ka2d at arrl.net>; <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] More 10-Meter RTTY questions


>I misunderstood the original situation, but understand now.  Since I've
>never tried transmitting the contents of an F-key message
> while in the ALT-K window, I didn't even know this worked on CW.
>
> You are correct though, it does not work on RTTY.  Not sure why you would
> need this in a contest although it might be good during a
> normal RTTY QSO.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
> http://www.aa5au.com
> http://www.rttycontesting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alan Marshall
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:14 PM
> To: Tom Carrubba KA2D; writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] More 10-Meter RTTY questions
>
> Tom,
>
> If I had started out with RTTY instead of CW using writelog (a whole lot
> of years ago) I would agree with you but since in CW when
> you are in the alt-k window if you hit the macro keys (F1-F11) the macros
> get entered and transmitted just as if you had typed them
> into the window.  It does NOT work that way with RTTY mode.
>
>    -Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Carrubba KA2D" <ka2d at arrl.net>
> To: <writelog at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] More 10-Meter RTTY questions
>
>
>> Hi Alan
>>
>> If I am reading you correct. When you hit the ALT+K, it is for keyboard
>> input only. You must type whatever, then hit ALT+K to go back to function
>> keys...
>>
>> CU -Tom KA2D
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Alan Marshall" <acm at ultranet.com>
>> To: "writelog reflector" <writelog at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:01 PM
>> Subject: [WriteLog] More 10-Meter RTTY questions
>>
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have an issue that is surely my ignorance.  In Writelog with the focus
>>> on
>>> the call entry window, hitting alt-k brings up idle signals on my
>>> 756-proII.
>>> BUT the function keys do nothing from here.  I can type in normally and
>>> all
>>> is sent as typed.  BUT the function registers are not feeding that
>>> window
>>> as
>>> they do in CW.  What am I missing to make that work??
>>>
>>>    -Alan, W1CCE
>>>
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