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:k...@k8ut.com] Sent: Friday, 2 September 2011 21:59 To: John Shaw; dx4win@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 ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
