[WT-support] CQWW CW

[Olivier F5MZN]

Dominik Bugmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> A few observations during CQWW CW. I only played the first few hours and
> Sunday afternoon/evening.
> 
> I saw several reports that the CW speed can change without touching any
> ALT-F9/F10 or Winkey (was using microHAM with Winkey v8 and WT 2.20). It
> always happend while I was running and messed up entering a callsign. So far
> I narrowed it down to the key in the area of Pause, F12, INS, DEL, Home,
> End, Page Up, Page Down and Backspace. Every time it happend the speed went
> down a bit. I have the option "Independant speed between pot and comp"
> ticket.
> I guess WT tried to tell me I should try slower if I can't keep up with the
> pile up (roughly 150Q/hr).

Ahah not yet! ;)

> I think the variable $CORRECT does not always work as I expected.
> - Entered HB9AA, pressed INS and later correct to HB9AB. During "+"-phase
> the corrected HB9AB was resent (HB9AB TU HB9CZF)
> - In case I worked HB9AB on a different band before the $CORRECT message was
> not sent.

I'll check that.

> 4U60UN is not scored correctly. Mult shows ---- (didn't check the country
> files yet).

This call is probably missing in the country file.

> Window "QSY Wizard" speaks French in the headline of the window. Pas de
> problem pour moi.

Right!

> Unfortunately I found no time to wire and try EZMaster which arrived two
> days before the contest :-( but I give it a try during the HB9 XMAS contest
> (a really slow contest compared to CQWW).
> 
> Regarding CQWW: I was amazed about the performance of the 40m band Sunday
> evening. VK, ZL, JA, KH2 booming in while the first W were heard (their
> local noon) and the EU's were weak. Guess the MUF was very low.

I agree. Condx was good on 80 and 160 as well (we even worked a JA on 160!)

73,
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Olivier / f5mzn