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Re: [Trlog] CW message for callsign?

To: rt_clay@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [Trlog] CW message for callsign?
From: Jim Smith <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 22:18:20 -0700
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Maybe I'm missing something here.  Surely, as a TR user, you've had TR 
send your call thousands of times.  You accomplished this by programming 
the function key message memories appropriately using ALT-P, C or E as 
appropriate.  Couldn't you do the same thing here?

73, Jim VE7FO

rt_clay@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Here's an interesting experiment I tried a while back with trlog:
> 
> The K2 (and maybe other recent radios?) allows you to send cw by sending an 
> ascii string to the radio over the RS-232 interface. I tried using this 
> method to send the cw function keys in trlog, and it works quite well 
> (latency is low enough). The cw speed is adjusted with the pot on the K2 
> panel, but could also probably be changed with a remote command. A paddle can 
> be connect directly to the K2 for manual sending. You do lose the cw keyboard 
> in tr doing this.
> 
> The point of doing this is for running TR in Windows or Linux where cw timing 
> is an issue.
> 
> However, there was one major problem...there is no cw message in trlog to 
> send your callsign! Is there a "secret" message name for the callsign? Or is 
> sending the callsign handled separately from the function and exchange keys? 
> It would also be great to be able to have ESC send the "kill cw" command (I 
> did do this with a separate function key and it worked fine).
> 
> One other issue to to work out an interlock to prevent transmitting 
> simultaneously in So2R, but I imagine that can be fixed with a small external 
> circuit.
> 
> Tor
> N4OGW
> 
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