[WT-support] Band map and silent entry

[Clive Whelan]

Yes there is a connection!

I'm puzzled as to why it is necessary to explicitly enter a "logged 
callsign" into the band map with Ctrl-Enter. All the other loggers I've 
used have done this automatically without operator intervention, and I 
think it is the QSY operation that technically makes this possible. OK, 
sure you get a few bum spots in there when you mis-enter a call and 
forget to correct it, but w.t.h. they are easily deleted if they annoy.

So to silent entry. This is a most important feature for those of us who 
habitually use the paddle for fills and the like. WT  uses the Ctrl + 
combo ( I think) for this which works, but in the heat of battle is not 
that easy to key accurately. Anyway logically it ought to be a variant 
of the Enter key, and elsewhere  Ctrl-Enter and Alt-Enter  are both 
used.  So there's the  " lousy link" , and my suggestion would be to 
make entry into the bandmap automatic and use the Ctrl-Enter combo thus 
released  for the crucial silent entry function. Seems to be a win-win 
situation, well except for the programmers!

73


Clive
GW3NJW