[WT-support] Feature Request for multi-ops: Send a "PSE QSY" message to pass multipliers

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

When operating at a multi-multi, when a rare multiplier answers your CQ, it
is often the case that you will send a message like "PSE QSY 21023 ?" or
similar to pass the station to another band.  That's a lot of typing in
keyboard mode, or a lot of sending with paddles, plus you have to read the
Alt-J (Status) window to figure out what frequency to use, and you have to
type the numbers perfectly.

It would be nice if the Win-Test "Pass Multiplier" window (Alt-D) or QSY
Wizard or Check Multiplier window had way to generate these PSE QSY messages
automatically via clicks or a simple keystroke.  The PSE QSY message could
be customized on the Options tab of the Standard CW Messages window, where
the QSOB4 message is programmed.  You could set it to  "PSE QSY $QSYFREQ ?"
(with $QSYFREQ determined by where you clicked).

Even easier for the developers, perhaps, would be to add a new LUA API that
returns the nearest operating frequency of the specified band, e.g., create
PSEQSY.wts containing:

wtKeyer:Play("PSE QSY " .. wtRadio:GetRunFreq(wtArg) .. " ?")

where wtArg would be a band like 80, 40, 20, etc, and this would return the
current frequency of the 80, 40, or 20m RUN station on the network (or an
empty string if not found).  Then you could call this script from any
function key with the proper argument.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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