[Dx4win] Using different calls

[John Shaw]

 Hi Larry,

Thanks for taking the time to explain all that, yes I did all that pretty
much verbatim and yes it works but what a monster to administer.  Every time
you want to change one little thing.  So yes that is a work around but I
like making QSO's on air not shuffling files.  :-)

I think for now my one file with the callsign only seems to work FB.  I was
just wondering if some clever person out there had a smarter idea than
either of these methods.

Perhaps one of the things on my wish list is for the %~ function to be
detached from the registered user callsign in the preferences.  These days a
legit user may have several calls and maybe use a different one only for a
short period of time and want to change back and forth between different
calls often.

73 John ZL1BYZ.

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Gauthier (K8UT) [mailto:k8ut at k8ut.com] 
Sent: Friday, 2 September 2011 21:59
To: John Shaw; dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Using different calls

John,

Imagine that you create three subdirectories: \MACROS, \ZL1BYZmacros and
\ZL9ABCmacros. In the ZL1 and ZL9 subdirectories you place identically named
files: FK_F1.txt, FK_F2.txt, FK_F3.txt...

If F1 in your DX4WIN function keys is "CallCQ", then in the file
ZL1BYZmacros\FK_F1.txt you would place "CQ CQ CQ de ZL1BYZ ZL1BYZ K",
whereas within ZL9ABCmacros\FK_F1.txt would be "CQ CQ CQ de ZL9ABC ZL9ABC
K." You would follow that pattern for all of the function keys - identical
files with identical macros -- except for the callsign - in those two
subdirectories. (This technique only issues ONE file request once per
function key press.)

Next, within Dx4Win, define all of the functions keys to call those
filenames BUT refer to the \MACROS subdirectory. Thus the F1 CallCQ
definition would be "CallCQ|%f..\MACROS\FK_F1%", F2 ReplyCQ
"ReplyCQ|%f..\MACROS\FK_F2%"...

Finally, when you want to be ZL1BYZ, use Windows Explorer to copy/paste all
files from \ZL1BYZmacros into \MACROS. When you want to be ZL9ABC,
copy/paste all of the files from \ZL9ABCmacros into \MACROS.

-larry
K8UT