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Subject: [TRLog] Foot switch mode = brake
From: juhan@chem.ut.ee (Juhan Poldvere)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 16:45:10 +0300 (EET)
I sit there running stations and everything goes smoothly and nicely.
AUTO SEND CHARACTER COUNT = 4 and AUTO CALL TERMINATE = TRUE. I don't
type the 4th character until I have the call. Super!
Then this S3 guy comes through the noise - XY72/6ZO8XYZ/P/QRP, and I
realize my brain registers are too short to remember the whole call. So I
type it past the hanging down-arrow. The kilowatt turns on, nobody listening,
and I have not heard to the end of the call. Escape is too slow here. I know
now I should have pressed Alt-"-", but, had I done so, I had forgotten the
call in the process anyway (thinking consumes resources).

Now I dream of having
FOOT SWITCH MODE = BRAKE to hold back all sending until I let it go.
In a way opposite to START SENDING.

Hmm,
FOOT SWITCH MODE = ACCELERATOR
would be nice too to speed things up a bit (patent pending).

73 & cu,
-- 
Juhan Poldvere, ES5QX                            ! Internet : juhan@chem.ut.ee
University of Tartu, Dept. of Chemistry          ! voice    : +(372)7-465256
2 Jakobi St, Tartu EE2400, Estonia via Stockholm ! fax      : +(372)7-465264


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