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Re: [WriteLog] Atomic Message - What am I doing wrong?

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Atomic Message - What am I doing wrong?
From: Ken Claerbout <kenk4zw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 17:39:17 -0500
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Thanks to Gert PA3AAV for the answer:

"Make sure that you installed V.2.11 and then make sure you have inserted a
space before your  callsign, so something like
Test%A K4ZW%a"

I'm not sure what Two Radio Run Mode version I was using but upgrading to
V.2.11 and using his suggested text did the trick.

73
Ken K4ZW


On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM Ken Claerbout <kenk4zw@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't seem to get the atomic message function to work despite several
> exchanges with Tom  W2SC, who uses it.  I've used the following F1 messages
> either from the instructions or examples from others.
>
> CQ %AK4ZW and CQ %A K4ZW
> CQ a%K4ZW
> CQ%A K4ZW%a
> and maybe a few others.
>
> Regardless of what I do, while the Two Radio Run Mode is running, I can
> hit F1 on the left keyboard and interrupt the sending of K4ZW by hitting F1
> on the right keyboard.  It then starts the CQ on the right keyboard.  Same
> thing happens if I hit F1 on the left keyboard. Sending of K4ZW on the
> right radio is interrupted.
>
> It seems like a very easy concept with straightforward instructions.  Yet
> apparently I'm not doing something right.  Besides sounding like a Lid, I
> don't like the idea of chopping off a character or two, then having the RBN
> spot me as something like K4ZA, K4ZE, and having a bunch of dupes calling.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> 73
> Ken K4ZW
>
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