This is true Marty!
WPX CW was my first attempt at SO2R. I took it easy and only made about 50
QSOs on the second radio out of about 1300. However, I did notice this
problem and I think it's serious. When CQing on the run radio, I had to enter
S&P calls on the "run" data entry field. If I tried to enter calls from the
2nd radio into the 2nd radio call field, the CQ would stop immediately. If I
found someone to call on the 2nd radio I had to re-type it into the other
radio call field. This doesn't make any sense to me.
I've thought about this a little and there seems to be a catch-22. The
up/down arrow keys determine which radio is the "focus". Thats cool, but you
can only type input to the "focus" call field. What we need is a separate hot
key to toggle the curser into the call field of the "non-focus" radio for S&P
purposes. Keep the non-focus data entry fields grey, but allow calls to be
checked for dupe/mult.
For a hot key suggestion, I'd recommend using the period or comma key. It
needs to be something quick and easy. Please .. no mouse movements!!
73, Al AD6E
In a message dated 6/7/2001 12:12:04 Pacific Daylight Time, ki0lo@yahoo.com
writes:
>
> The "problem" you describe doesn't sound like it's got anything
> to do with the keyer -- I think you're seeing the regular
> behavior of WriteLog when running 2 radios.
>
> It's always been my experience that doing anything to set focus
> to the "other" radio window when one radio is calling CQ (or
> sending the exchange or whatever) will cause the transmission to
> stop.
>
> It certainly happens that way when running RTTY on two radios,
> and I think someone explained it to me as the way it's
> "supposed' to work, although I find it quite annoying -- if I
> want to interrupt the transmission on one radio, I'll set focus
> to that radio and hit ESC -- otherwise, it shouldn't care what
> I'm doing!
>
> -Marty NW0L
> martyt@pobox.com
>
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