Re: Real RST possible?

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2020 28 Jan 00:29 -0600, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> Hi Jim, Nate and Zoli,
> 
> we should keep in mind to integrate it in the flow of the qso,
> especially in contests. 
> 
> What I mean is running in CQ mode I need the RST of the other
> station *before* answering his call and will get his RST in his reply.
> Running in S&P I would first get my RST from him and only *afterwards*
> need his RST for my reply. 
> 
> Another question is if the operator uses ESM or not.

To be honest, Tom, I don't see the way I described changing the behavior
of Enter or Space.  It would merely modify the RST fields to be entry
boxes but would be prepopulated with 59[9] as now and Enter and Space
would skip them.  Tab would move into each in turn from Call --> RX RST
--> TX RST --> Exchange --> Call (CQWW example).

Your musing of Run vs S&P is a good one.  For the most part, I think
this is a rather specific use case where the '5' is to be replaced by
another numeral.  Most of us probably won't use this feature.  ;-)

Another option is to leave all keys as-is and only modify
Page-Up/Page-Dn so that they work this way:

Tap Page-Dn until '1' is reached and then like an odometer the first
numeral rolls down to '4', the next tap rolls the first numeral down to
'3' and so on while leaving the second numeral at '1', then tap Page-Up
to set the second numeral.  That would require a few taps of Page-Up
until the report of 459 is reached.

Probably the reason this hasn't been requested before is that major
contest sponsors mostly ignore the signal report for log checking.

73, Nate

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