I to have been a proponent also since I still use a TTY machine.
I guess I don't have to say what happens after the 73rd letter
on the paper of these things.
At 09:30 PM 11/12/2006, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I have always been a proponent of adding the {ENTER} at the beginning and
>end and of the F2 or F4 macro's. I now see what other people are talking
>about when they say to leave them out.
>
>When running 2 radios, I have 8 windows open on the screen. That means that
>the Digital 1 and Digital 2 windows are not very big. I notice that some
>people put 2 or even 3 {ENTER} at the end of their macro's. If band
>conditions are really bad, like this weekend, I may not get your callsign
>the first time. When it finally
>prints right and I get ready to click on it, it jumps up 2 or 3 lines and is
>gone. Same way with the report. An {ENTER} at the beginning is not bad,
>but not at the end.
>
>I tried just putting 3 or 4 spaces at the end of my F4 and F2 macro's and it
>seems to work pretty well.
>
>It looks nice to have a clean window to start printing the other station,
>but if there are just a few spaces at the end of the macro, that works just
>as well. IMHO. 73
>
>Tom W7WHY
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