Hi Dave,
I thought I heard you in there, but don't think we worked...
Comments below:
On 14 Mar 01, at 21:13, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
>
> I used Writelog in the recent rtty Sprint and ran into
> a few problems.
>
> 1. RTTY Sprint is not one of the contests supported by the
> program, so I used regular Sprint, since the only difference in
> the rules is the work-em-again-after-3-qso rule. I figured to
> score the "dupes" later.
>
I did the same. Originally planned to use the Internet Sprint contest
form, but then diecided I'd rather have the name/QTH auto-fill on
subsequent QSOs, and deal with the 3 QSO dupe rule myself.
> 2. If I left the cursor in the callsign field, and attempted to
> send an exchange to a "dupe," the program would send only the
> other station's callsign, then hang up and diddle. I didn't
> figure out in time during the contest that it would work if I
> tabbed over to put the cursor in the next field. During the
> contest, the only thing I could think of to do was to enter the
> keyboard mode and send the exchange manually!
>
The way to deal with this is also put the exchange between a pair
of %B. See the help file for details, and an example. In this case,
something like:
%c %b %3 dave az %b %3 dave az %e
> 3. The program would not fill in the name and qth of previously
> worked stations.
>
Mine did.
> 4. I could not find a way to send a cq on radio 2, while I was
> copying the exchange on radio 1. This is the normal so2r
> method used for the sprints. You call cq on radio 2 if you are
> the one who has to vacate the frequency under the qsy rule. If
> nobody comes back to the cq, you call cq again, while S&P'ing
> on the other radio. I guess if I had two networked computers
> I could have done it.
>
I use 2 computers and the RTTY lockout to prevent xmitting on
both at same time.
73 Barry
> After about 45 minutes of this, I packed it in.
>
> It would be nice if the program supported the RTTY Sprint. If
> anyone has ideas on how to work the so2r issue, or anything else
> related to the above, please let me know. Thanks.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
> K6LL@juno.com
>
>
>
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