[WT-support] WT RTTY (radio 1) window width - font size

[Bill AC0W]

Tom,

Having operated from large stations I agree that rotor control is a not a
needed feature for the large station. With multiple antennas and rotors
automatic rotor control would be a bother.

However, when operating from home with my single tower and single rotor,
having rotor control available through the PC allows me to do other tasks
that add to the score. I no longer have to pay attention to where the rotor
is pointed, keep my hand on the rotor controls, etc. I can stay more focused
on getting more QSO's into the log.

We are not talking about typing in a call and the rotor automatically turn
to that station. We are talking about the operator making a decision of when
the rotor turns. Example is after running EU for a while you determine that
it is time to work AF, type in 90 in the callsign field, CTRL- F10, rotor
turns antenna to 90 degrees. While it is doing this you continue to make
contacts or change bandes, etc. Sometime you do type in the call and
CTRL-F10 to turn the rotor to that station, when you happen upon a juicy DX
station. 

So the wear and tear people argue about does not happen.

Like the previous writer, CT had this in the DOS days. Since this program is
billed as the CT replacement I would hope at some point in time it would
have the same features as CT had.

Bill
AC0W

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at win-test.com [mailto:support-bounces at win-test.com] On
Behalf Of Tom W8JI
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:49 PM
To: Laurent HAAS - F6FVY; support at win-test.com
Subject: Re: [WT-support] WT RTTY (radio 1) window width - font size

I recently had an opportunity to discuss with a very well known and
experienced European contester who won several CQWW (with or without WT),
and he told me that (in his opinion) all needed features to win a contest
were yet included in Win-Test and future additions can be today considered
as unnecessary ;-)  Nevertheless some additions, like the rotors control,
will be included someday for sure because it frees time and keep the op.
focused on the pile-up.>>>

I think very few larger stations use automatic rotor controls. By the time
rotors turn it is too late unless you are waiting to call someone that
cannot hear you very well, in which case you have all the time in the world
to manually turn a rotor. If stations are calling and the rotor would turn
with every callsign, the rotor would wear out in no time! If you barely
change the direction, then the fact you might have to poke a button one in a
while is no big deal.

Most larger stations won't have many rotors and would not want antennas with
rotors to turn automatically very often. 
Our goal is to not have any antenna rotors at all. Right now we have only
two, one on a tower that takes two minutes to turn stop-to-stop, and another
on a small multiplier antenna for 40-10. Neither one would be automatically
turned. The most simple interface to use outside the software is an
automatic rotor controller, so it is not a show stopper for anyone.

I assume from your response the CW interfaces will likely not be upgraded to
work properly or completely in all functions, and everything else will
pretty much stay the way it is including two radio on the same band
operations or improved RTTY operation. Is this correct? This is really what
I need to know for our future plans.

73 Tom 

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