[WriteLog] some post WAE RTTY thoughts etc.

[Jeff Stai]

I can help! See below - 73 jeff wk6i

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 4:40 PM Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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>?
>

Yes. Suggest reviewing the great writeup on rttycontesting.com and also
search the Writelog help for QTC.

>
> 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.
>

You can go back in RTTYrite and reclick the QTCs. The very good news is
that Writelog will overwrite the bad entry with the reclick. You don't have
to erase.

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

Yes you did in fact kick butt this weekend :) WL *was* great, my
suggestions are incremental.


>
> Randy K5ZD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 6:46 PM
> To: Writelog Reflector <writelog at contesting.com>; Wayne <
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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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RTTY op at W7RN
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