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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let me express my sincere regards to the developers
of WT. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Before I report on a very strange behaviour of
version 3.07 of WT, let me describe my set-up:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>GERICOM NB, 1GHz, 1GB DRAM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WINDOWS XP prof</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WT 3.07</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TRX (IC-781) switched off</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>microHAM microKEYER switched off, USB ROUTER
deactivated</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is what happens:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When configuring WT for the forthcoming IARU-Regio
1 FIELDDAY and testing the programme, I run into the problem that the programme
crashes as soon as I type in a call sign starting with a "W" and followed
immediately by any number. Example: When I want to log W3DZZ, the programme will
crash when I enter the figure "3". </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This will only happen, if the n+1 window is active,
i.e. displayed on the screen, irrespective of whether the n+1 window has been
opened first or last or somewhere in the sequence of opening the various
windows. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course I have not tried all the theoretical
constellations of combinations of windows and sequence of opening them and of
course I have not tried all possible call sign configurations.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>However I have tried the following prefixes
with the n+1 window active: DL, DJ, F5, G3, IV3, EA6, K3, GI4. They all work
fine with the n+1 window active. However, the moment I type in W plus any
figure, WT crashes. To be more exact: If I say crash that means that a message
will pop up which says something like "a severe problem has occured; the
programme will be shut down. The error message can be found when pressing xyz.
Would you like to send a report on this fault to MICROSOFT?"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course, I don't really need the n+1 window,
however, I am a bit frightened that there might be some other instability in the
programme or in the combination of WT, Windows XP prof and the NB I am
using. And such instabilities certainly would be the very last thing I want
to see in a Fieldday in which many OPs are involved - especially since the
forthcoming FD will be the event, when we will use WT for the first time in a
FD. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is another shortcoming of WT for the FD. All
the active participants in the FD use a call, which consists of the station call
sign plus a "/p". And of course the "/p" makes a big difference for
scoring.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unfortunately the layout of the German keyboards is
such that the "/" is on top of the numerical key "7", i.e. in order to generate
A "/" you have to press the shift key and then the "7"-key, which inevitably
requires that you use two hands for typing, and this of course is a big
disadvantage in high speed contesting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I realize and I have successfully tested the
WT-feature to redefine any keyboard key. And of course I have redifined the "ü",
the "ö", the "ä" and the "-" - key to generate a "/". This works fine. It would,
however be very much more helpful, if the pressing of these keys would not just
generate the "/" but the complete string of "/p". This way you would spare
one pressure of a key (the "p"-key) in around 70% of all QSOs which at a rate of
a thousand QSOs or more in the FD-contest saves around 700 times pressing the
old "p"-key. Quite a saving!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you very much in advance for looking into
these two problems.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>vy 73 de Rudolf, DJ3WE</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>