[WT-support] Combine Ctrl-TAB, Alt-Y and Alt-F4

[Rudolf Schwenger]

Sehr gute Idee!

vy 73 de Rudolf, DJ3WE


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernhard Buettner DL6RAI" <wintest07 at dl6rai.muc.de>
To: "Win-Test Support List" <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:55 PM
Subject: [WT-support] Combine Ctrl-TAB, Alt-Y and Alt-F4


> Some notes from last contest weekends just popped up. This one
> mostly is about RUN S/P switching, and RUN MULT status.
> 
> Here is an idea that came up during WAE RTTY. We heavily used the
> two different keyboard modes RUN and S/P, which you can switch using
> Ctrl-TAB.
> 
> a) While CQing on a frequency with a low rate, you sometimes go to
> check for mults in the Announce window. When clicking on a spot,
> it would be desirable to also switch to S/P mode, because that's what
> you'll need in that situation. And when you return to the CQ frequency,
> you would like to switch back to RUN mode.
> 
> So instead of
> 
> <click>
> Ctrl-TAB
> work the DX
> Alt-F4
> Ctrl-TAB
> F1
> 
> you would do
> 
> <click>
> work the DX
> Alt-F4
> F1
> 
> b) Alt-Y in a Multi-Single environment switches a RUN station into
> the MULT status or vice versa. At the same time, it would be desirable
> also to switch from RUN mode to S/P mode - and vice versa.
> 
> so instead of
> 
> Alt-Y
> Ctrl-TAB
> 
> you would do
> 
> Alt-Y
> 
> c) For the first few hours, we often forget to switch between RUN
> and MULT status. Later in the contest we have to go back to the
> beginning of the log and do a lot of Alt-Y Alt-Y Alt-Y. CT used to
> display MULT status with the band information written in white color
> on a blue background, while the RUN status was displayed using black
> color on the default cyan background. It was a little more obvious then.
> Could it be implemented in Win-Test too?
> 
> Of course you will probably want to make all of these, should you
> decide to implement them, an optional feature.
> 
> 73 Ben, DL6RAI
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