1. I experienced a curious situation during SS (as did a friend with nearly
the same setup). We are both using TS-940s and NA10.50 on pure DOS machines. I
have the Kenwood interface for radio control, he the PIEXX...in case any of it
matters.
During pre-contest setup (we were on the phone together) he and I could easily
enter the bandmap with a CTRL-RTARROW and exit it (without grabbing anything)
by hitting the ESC key. Just now, I installed NA on my work computer and ran
it in a DOS window, and the bandmap works just like this (I tested simply the
CTRL-RTARROW-followed-by-ESC sequence).
However (and I noticed this happene at some point during SS CW as well) that
during the contest, the ESC key became disabled for this function. Instead, I
discovered (as a true hacker) that only CTRL-LTARROW seemed to allow exiting
the bandmap (short of grabbing a spot and then wiping).
2. I noticed that if I had a bandmap up (say I was operating on 80meters) and
I changed bands to 40meters (either by hitting the correct button on the TS940
OR by using Band-up/Band-down function keys), the bandmap did not change (it
should go to 40 meters, no?) until I added a bandmap entry (CTRL-ENTER) on the
new band. Is this normal?
3. It seems a bit cumbersome to have to press so many keys to populate the
bandmap. I use radio control and there's no need for the dialog box for
frequency to come up every time I hit CTRL-ENTER. Also, the call remains in
the callsign field after I CTRL-ENTER it into the bandmap. Seems to me that
the whole reason for doing a CTRL-ENTER is I do NOT want to work the guy just
yet, but am only loading the bandmap. If I wanted to work the guy, just
logging him stuffs the bandmap. Therefore I feel that the callsign should be
deleted from the log upon a CTRL-ENTER. This saves 2 out of the three current
keystrokes. CT works this way - not that that alone is enough reason.
73 Mike N2MG
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