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> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Dx4win mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dx4win.com > >
