Re: [Xlog-discussion] Contest message forwarding

[Joop Stakenborg]

Op maandag 22-12-2008 om 15:19 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jon K
Hellan:
> Hi
> 
> There is a Norwegian contest where you forward the last message received.
> 
> Me: 599 ABC    LA9XX: 599 XYZ
> next QSO
> Me: 599 XYZ    LA1YY: 599 FOO
> etc.
> 
> I implemented this in xlog. Is there any interest in including the patch?
> 

Sure, it won't hurt including it and at least people in Norway can use
it.. ;-)

> Details:
> 1. We need a way to invoke the functionality. Quite arbitrarily, I chose '~' 
> in the keyer and the defaults
> dialog to stand for last message received. xlog already uses % for my call, @ 
> for his call, etc. May be we want
> something like $LASTMSG instead of grabbing a character for each new function.

~ is fine. It is not a morse character, so it should work.

> 2. We need to initialize the message for the first contest QSO. This could be 
> another preference field,
> an init file preference without a GUI, or an environment variable.
> 

I would suggest an entry in the preference dialog, but how to explain
what it is used for? Any suggestions for a text label next to the entry
that could describe it?

> Or may be the functionality is too exotic to be of interest?
> 
> 73
> Jon LA4RT
> 

Joop PG4I