[Dx4win] MMTTY xmit & rcv keys

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:17:02 -0400

Sorry, Paul, but that math doesn't play here.  Function keys were intended
to be "short-cuts".  If I have to hit the CTRL key to get to the desired
function key, that isn't very useful to me.  The genesis of this
conversation was avoiding having to use CTRL-R and CTRL-T to switch between
transmit and receive in some instances.  And, while I didn't mention it
before, the reason for my wanting to avoid the CTRL key sequence is that,
for now, I have use of only my right hand.  Perhaps others are capable of
holding down the CTRL key while pressing a function key with one hand, but
I'm not.

K8AC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul van der Eijk" <[email protected]>
To: "Floyd Sense" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Dave"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] MMTTY xmit & rcv keys

> Floyd,
>
> 8 x 2 = 16 keys (counting Ctrl key)
>
> Paul
>
> At 02:35 PM 6/12/02 -0400, Floyd Sense wrote:
> >Yes, you are correct and that's certainly good information.  However, I'm
> >one of those old-time RTTY guys who sometimes actually carries on a
two-way
> >conversation in RTTY mode!  That makes the canned macros not always very
> >useful.  I find that I have 7 of the 8 function keys already populated
with
> >canned messages.  If I had a couple of spares, then I could put just a
"\"
> >in one string (switch to receive) and "%T" in the other (switch to
> >transmit).  The alternate function keys selected by pressing CTRL, of
> >course, defeats my goal of a single keystroke to switch.  Now if we just
had
> >12 function keys we could set up instead of the 8, that might be a
> >reasonable alternative.
> >
> >K8AC
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Dave" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:33 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Dx4win] MMTTY xmit & rcv keys
> >
> >
> >> Floyd et all
> >>
> >> For most of the standard  messages the transmit and receive commands
can
> >be
> >> embedded in the DX4WIN pre-programmed RTTY message function keys using
"/"
> >> and "%T" at the end of the line.The most useful info I have seen on
this
> >> was sent to me a few weeks ago by Larry K8UT and John WA9ALS. The info
is
> >> on John's WEB page at....
> >>
> >> http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/dx4win-mmtty-macros.rtf .
> >>
> ><snip>
> >
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD)
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