[WT-support] WT report from WRTC

[marko.holmavuo at dnainternet.net]

Hi All,

At first, thanks for WT-development team about excelent 
support and development work related to WT for WRTC 2006. 
WT worked like a charm and really helped a lot. With all 
those superioir WT-functionalities it was really excelent 
tool.

We will re-read our notes, but here are short list of 
observations that hopefully help you to develop future 
WT-upgrades:

Bandmap functionality:

-It seems that band map can't store exchanges, it just 
store calls. When inserting e.g HQ-stations, you cannot 
put callsign+HQ abbreviation in bandmap. When getting 
calls from bandmap you will always get default 
exchange...This made things a littlebit slower because you 
had to re-enter exchange when working new HQ's from band 
map.

-When sweeping bands up and down, it would be handy to 
enable such functionality which will get calls 
automatically from bandmap to callsign field when there 
are something in that frequency(+/-adjustable tolerance). 
If you don't like to work that station moving vfo up/down 
would automatically clear callsign field.

-It would be nice to get your own cq-frequency in band-map 
(frequency where you have pressed f1-key)

Partner feature:

-We noticed that partner feature doesn't work if you have 
two computers on same band and mode but the computer b has 
configured 2 radios. Station B- Radio A is on different 
band/mode, but Radio B is on same mode&band than Station A 
(radio A) and radio B was active on station B.

Station A/Radio A 20m CW (active)
Station B/Radio A 15m CW
Station B/Radio B 20m CW (active)

Now when station B (with radio B ) inserts calls to 
partner window, those calls doesn't appear in station 
A-screen even both stations are on same band and mode.

Check Multipliers window

-It seems that even you have checked actualize information 
to automatic and when you enter exchange in callsign row, 
check multiplier doesn't refresh until your press space. 
E.g insert new multiplier callsign in callsign field log 
that qso. Insert callsign from same zone but change the 
exchange as HQ-station abbreviation. Check Multipliers 
window doesn't refresh itself untill pressing space.

I just checked how WT behvious in CQWW: it doesn't notice 
the zone what you have typed in rcvd field as an zone 
number.

We have earlier reported some CW-problems with Ez-master 
w/wo Winkey when using +/- marks in cw-messages. Randomly 
we faced still these cw-timing problems and cw was sent 
slower than it should have been. We will check if we can 
find some audio clips and come back to this issue later 
on.

After WPX CW we reported some add WT behaviour with some 
specifix prefixes (then it was some JA-prefix which caused 
WT-crash). At the very end of WRTC-contest our station b 
faced same kind of problems now with some N2-prefix (I 
have to check this). When entering that prefix in the 
callsign field WT-crashed. Computer was brand new laptop 
never connected to internet with minimal software needed 
to run WT.

Propably other WT-WRTC teams can report their observation 
/ development ideas aswell.

73 Marko OH4JFN