You have it correct, Larry. SPACE at the end of all your macros,
not a linefeed. If the last word in your macro is a callsign,
better add TWO spaces, because Writelog needs two extra
characters before it highlights a callsign. Linefeed at the
beginning of a macro is OK.
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "RW4WZ" <rw4wz@udm.net>
To: "'RTTY Reflector'" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] What abt LINE feed
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave
>> Hachadorian
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:12 AM
>> To: RTTY Reflector
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] What abt LINE feed
>>
>> N1MM does strip excessive line feeds, but not the first one.
>> For example, if the sender's macro is 599 GA-linefeed, the GA
>> may jump up from under your mouse pointer. You may think you
>> have clicked on GA, but the contact won't be logged, because
>> the state is missing. If you are doing two radios, you may
>> not notice this right away, and after a few minutes on the
>> other radio, you come back to find an unlogged qso with the
>> state missing. Then you have to scroll back and see what
>> state the guy was in.
>>
>> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
>> Yuma, AZ
>>
>
>
> Interesting discussion about the subject. I'm using only MIXW
> for almost 9
> years
> and never had such a problems. But what I need to do that users
> of other
> software
> have no problem ? What is last verdict ? Get out all LF from
> the script ?
>
> Now about the assumption that some European software doing some
> kind of
> crazy macros.
> No way, it is about the newcomers who do not even understand
> the
> fundamentals of RTTY mode.
> We need to educate them. This people not even young and novice,
> many of them
> come from
> regular contest modes CW and Phone. I'm get sick when get the
> 5NN report ;)
>
>
> It is -25C here, let me better revise my macros for LF ;)
> But want to advice to whom will do the same, don't forget to
> change the LF
> for SPACE and something printable on the screen. It will be
> more worst situation if You just delete the LF.
>
> 73 and HNY to all RTTY community !!
>
> Larry
>
> RW4WZ
>
>
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