I wasn't going to get on the emails tonight, other things to do. But this
one is my major TR downfall in the contests. It's not so much that I don't
get it, or haven't used TR enough to get used to it, it's me.
When I get tired, I can't keep track of how many times I've hit the escape
key, or I miss when I was aiming at F1, and don't realize it. The real
confusion comes when I try to keep on without realizing that the modes have
changed. There hasn't even one contest gone by that I haven't screwed up
dozen, half dozen qso's because of it, or lost the call sign because I
escaped it out of existence and my memory is (was) on the screen, or got
myself so confused I lost my run frequency reentering the qso and adding to
the log with the key unplugged so I wouldn't retransmit the exchange etc,
etc. Or I send an exchange when I'm trying to send my call sign. (This last
dozens of times in any contest.)
This is the ONLY thing I can't seem to master on TR. An option to limit the
mode change to Shift tab or Ctl tab as posted elsewhere, would be wonderful.
I need this to still be able to function when I'm down the tubes, running on
fumes in the idiot mode.
Thanks & 73,
Guy
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Guy L. Olinger
k2av@qsl.net
Apex, NC, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Clive Whelan <Clive_Whelan@compuserve.com>
>
>Hi list
>
>I have used TR for a couple of months now, and find it first class in
almost every respect.
>
>However operations have highlighted one rather clumsy, unergonomic feature,
viz the switching from S&P mode into CQ mode. Although this can be
accomplished a coup
>le of ways, hitting the ESC key several times will do this, and often this
is not what I intend in the heat of the moment.
>
>This often results in my trying to send an exchange to someone I haven't
even called!. I thought perhaps I would become accustomed to this, but
experience does no
> support this. I know that white stick op. G3YXX has the same difficulty,
and perhaps you could imagine how much more serious this is for him, whereas
in my case
>it's just dumbness!
>
>I wonder if others find this a problem, and would not the solution be to
disallow ESC for this function, and require solely the use of a more
definite key sequenc
>e such as Ctrl Tab?
>
>opinions welcome
>
>73
>Clive
>GW3NJW
>
>
>Clive Whelan
>clive_whelan@compuserve.com
>
>
>
>
>
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