[WriteLog] Dueling CQ's in WriteLog?

Jerry Flanders jeflanders at comcast.net
Fri Oct 9 15:57:47 EDT 2015 

Hi Dean.

Thanks for the encouragement - I think I will eventually get there.

Concerning the Flex: AFAIK, SO2R has been 
discussed only in connection with the 6700, which 
has two independent receivers in it. I suspect 
SO2R support for the 6500 is not far away.

You might find more info on one of the Flex 
reflectors - either the community or the 
independent SmartSDR list at 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FlexRadioSmartSDR/info .

73

Jerry W4UK

At 02:49 PM 10/9/2015, Dean St. Hill wrote:

>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 2Â  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" 
><<mailto:jeflanders at comcast.net>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 
>AA5AUÂ  Â  Â  Â From: Jerry Flanders 
><<mailto:jeflanders at comcast.net>jeflanders at comcast.net> 
>To: Mike Heideman 
><<mailto:mike_heideman at hotmail.com>mike_heideman at hotmail.com>; 
>"<mailto:writelog at contesting.com>writelog at contesting.com" 
><<mailto: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/2 
>0>http://lists.contesting.com/_writelog/20 
>07-11/msg00028.html><http://lists.contesting.com/_writelog/2007-11/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 W4UK 
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