[WT-support] CTRL-S is a very dangerous key (was "Redefining the * key")

[Clive Whelan]

Thanks Bob.  The only reason that Ctrl Pause is halfway acceptable is 
that I am well used to plain Pause, and being keyboard challenged, the 
fact that the Ctrl key is at the bottom left hand corner of the kbd, 
means that I can hit it blind with my ring finger. Your point about 
opthalmically challenging the Ctrl S combo is well made

I do run SO2R as you will have seen from my screen shot, and to that end 
I run a pair of PROIIIs, a pair of ACOM1000s and a microHam double six 
switch, with the MK2R+. Sadly, as I live in what is known in the UK as a 
conservation area, all antennas are proscribed, and I therefore cannot 
do justice to that bevy of electronics. Of course I do have a few 
antennas, but they are all invisible ;-)

73


Clive
GW3NJW



Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Clive Whelan 
> <clive.whelan at btinternet.com <mailto:clive.whelan at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Some of you might remember that I have a keyboard with no numeric
>     keypad. I therefore decided to temporarily connect a conventional USB
>     kbd in order to redefine the numpad * key to the Pause key with
>     which I
>     am familiar in Brand X logger. However for some reason the standard
>     routine in WT will not accept the Pause key, although paradoxically it
>     will accept Ctrl-Pause !
>
>
> May I suggest that you reprogram Ctrl-S to do the function of [*]?  
> The default function of Ctrl-S can be very DANGEROUS when using SO2R 
> and an amplifier that doesn't automatically switch bands.  Even if you 
> don't have an amplifier, you still need a "Six Pack" type box that can 
> put any antenna on any rig.  Otherwise, if you accidentally hit Ctrl-S 
> instead of Ctrl-A, say, you can find yourself transmitting on the 
> wrong band into a mistuned amplifier or the wrong antenna.  The risk 
> of doing rig or amplifier damage as the result of a simple typo is 
> much too high in my opinion, so use DEFINEKEYS to make Ctrl-S a "dead" 
> key (reprogram as [~] for example), or make Ctrl-S do the same thing 
> as [*].
>
> See 
> http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Menu:Commands#Swap_the_frequency_on_both_radios
>
> for a detailed explanation of what Ctrl-S does, and how it differs 
> from [*].
>
> FYI, CT initially used [Alt]-[.] (alt-period) to swap radios, later 
> changed to just [.] (but I personally prefer to use that as my F1 key).
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
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