[WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.

[Randy Thompson]

I was wishing I could edit some of the QTC related messages myself.

I didn't even realize there was a key to ask for the repeat of a particular QTC.  I was using Alt-K each time!  It's alt-<number>?

What was most maddening was not being able to cut and paste text between rows of the QTC receive box.  I had to retype most of several QTCs because I missed one message at the beginning.

Other than that, WL was great!  I had over 1700 QTC both sent and received.

Randy K5ZD


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From: WriteLog <writelog-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Jeff Stai
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Subject: [WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.

Question: There are times in mid contest when it would be helpful to verify a setting in the "ini file". Short of creating a snapshot at startup is there a more direct way of looking at the settings that I am missing?

The rest here is thoughts about incremental improvements to a QTC system that is both useful and fun.

Often during a contest I find I am editing some messages to meet changing conditions. During WAE I found the setting of the QTC fill request message to be problematic in fluttery conditions and I wanted to change it. But that one message is buried in the ini file. Could it be moved someplace else more accessible? How about the Contest Parameter dialog as one possibility?

On the fly I discovered that defined macro shortcut keys don't work when the alt-R and alt-S dialogs are open - or at least the punctuation key I have assigned to do the alt-K function, which is often needed. That's fine, but could we then have some more buttons in the dialogs? Maybe a couple that could be assigned to any message buffer (for example an "ALL AGN"
message) and one that invokes alt-K?

If you could click on the numbers on the left side of the alt-R dialog as the equivalent of typing alt-number that would really reduce the number of transitions between keyboard and mouse during fills in RTTY. (If that also positions the cursor in the corresponding field, bonus!)

Also I noticed on the fly that clicking on any unhighlighted text did not copy to the cursor location in the alt-R QTC list. The example was where I had half the QTC correct in one place in RTTYrite and the other half in another place. I just wanted to click-click and clean up extraneous but it wouldn't do it. I of course ended up typing it all in, but anything that can help reduce fill requests is appreciated.

There is no direct way to request a repeat of the initial group serial number and QTC count, or to send a fill of it. (There doesn't seem to be a standard name for it, actually...?).

Thanks for listening - 73 jeff wk6i

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Jeff Stai ~ WK6I ~ wk6i.jeff at gmail.com
RTTY op at W7RN
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