[WriteLog] Dueling CQ's in WriteLog?

[Dean St. Hill]

Duelling CQ's will definitely work in WriteLog using single computer SO2R.
I used to have it working then changed computers and could not get it to
work and then it finally started to work for me about a year ago.

I did not do a very good job of documenting why it worked but for sure you
need to have the 'auto Resume' box ticked under the timed CQ or  alt-T box.

In order to commence the feature you call CQ on radio 1 then use the
shift-down arrow to shift focus to radio 2  and hit your CQ button again.

I'm using WL 11.15A and I cannot verify at the moment the details as I do
not currently have an so2r setup having just recently sold a rig but that's
the best info I have. It may also have required some specific '%x' variable
at the end of the CQ message.

Note that I don't know the extent to which this will work with Flex for
example.

One question I do have for the Flex folks is whether this SO2R feature will
work with the lower priced Flex rigs or if it is unique to the 6700. I am
also assuming the Flex only has a single transmitter which moves from band
to band? While the two or more  receivers do their jobs?

Dean 8P6SH

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On Oct 9, 2015 12:40 PM, "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders at comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the note, Don. I got an encouraging detailed  note from n0at a
> few minutes ago telling me that it definitely worked this morning on his
> rig. So I haven't given up yet. I am going to update to 11.30c and start
> over. I will check to see if CW works this time before I try RTTY.
>
> Two PC SO2R is a lot simpler and works FB. I used to do it that way, but
> my Flex 6700 is two radios in one box and doesn't allow 2 PCs to control it.
>
> BTW, I believe this could be done with an external macro program if their
> macro can call another macro, but I haven't pursued that yet.
>
> 73
>
> Jerry W4UK
>
> At 12:00 PM 10/9/2015, Don AA5AU wrote:
>
>> Jerry, I'm not 100% sure on this but I do not think Dueling CQ works in
>> RTTY mode. You can try it in CW mode to see if it works. If so, switch to
>> RTTY and see if it works. If it works on CW but doesn't work on RTTY then
>> it confirms what I remember about it not working on RTTY. I do SO2R RTTY on
>> two networked PCs and it definitely doesn't work on RTTY that way. 73, Don
>> AA5AU       From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net> To: Mike
>> Heideman <mike_heideman at hotmail.com>; "writelog at contesting.com" <
>> writelog at contesting.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Dueling CQ's in WriteLog?    Thanks, Mike Yes -
>> it  was this posting, along with a couple of other similar ones I
>> discovered, that tell me that WL worked in the past to do exactly what I
>> need. But it just doesn't work for me with V11.29b under Win7. I tried it
>> yesterday before posting and again to make sure I was following
>> instructions exactly. I don't see the "CQ will auto-resume" message, and
>> the focus doesn't shift. If this is working for you there with a recent
>> version of WL maybe I need to change some other option to make it go here.
>> Please let me know what version you are using that it is working with.
>> Thanks again Jerry W4UK At 05:22 PM 10/7/2015, Mike Heideman wrote: >There
>> have been several postings in the past on this topic.  A >concise
>> step-by-step procedure was posted by ZS6AA several years ago >describing
>> how to automatically get dueling CQs. > ><
>> http://lists.contesting.com/_writelog/20 07-11/msg00028.html>
>> http://lists.contesting.com/_writelog/2007-11/msg00028.html  > >This has
>> worked for me on RTTY, CW and SSB.  I've also used it with >one radio on
>> CW and the other on SSB in some multi-mode >contests.  The second radio CQ
>> automatically resumes after sending a >message (exchange, TU, ?) on the
>> first radio.  It's helpful to >practice typical scenarios before the
>> contest with the transmitters >in a Test or local monitor mode to get used
>> to the keyboard and TX switching. > >You may also want to look into
>> remapping the various arrow keys used >in SO2R to avoid accidentally ending
>> up in the editable log.  WC1M >advocated disabling of the editable log
>> entry via arrow keys when >using SO2R but this change was never made in
>> WL.  Use of external >key mappers such as AutoHotKey can do this or
>> possibly the WL >Keyboard Shortcuts.  I add my vote to WC1M's to disable
>> entry into >editable log mode through arrow keys. > >73, >-Mike, N7MH > >
>> >Jerry W4UK wrote: > > I have never done single PC SO2R - always used 2 PCs
>> before. > > > > I am getting single PC SO2R RTTY going with my Flex 6700
>> with SSDR > > V1.50 and the latest version of WL. I have all apparently
>> working but > > find I now must manually click on the desired callsign
>> entry panels > > to switch tx focus back and forth between the two
>> radios/bands. > > > > GOOGLE shows me that WL had this feature years ago,
>> but the procedure > > to get it going doesn't work now for me. Maybe I am
>> missing something. > > > > If WL won't do it, anybody know of any external
>> software to control > > WL to do dueling CQ's? > > > > Help. > > > > Jerry
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