[LCC] RTTY Roundup K5ER Single Op LP

[Roland Guidry]

I was not home to run this contest! But, I have tried to install and use
N1MM + and could not make it work period. So I am still with Writelog. Maybe
I need a lesson on setting it up. 

Roland NA5Q

-----Original Message-----
From: LCC [mailto:lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Ketchell
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 9:54 PM
To: lcc at louisianacontestclub.org
Subject: [LCC] RTTY Roundup K5ER Single Op LP

ARRL RTTY Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2015-01-03

CallSign Used : K5ER
Operator(s) : K5ER

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : LA

Name : Mark Ketchell

ARRL Section : LA
Club/Team : Louisiana Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V14.1.2

Band   QSOs  Sec   DXC
3.5      91
7        110
14      45
21      248
28      94
Total  588    54    37

Score : 53,508


Soapbox:
      I hadn't heard of much rare DX planning to be on, so decided to go
un-assisted. Also figured it had been a while, so I went low power. Other
change was, it was time to try out N1MM +. Rtty Round-up is a fun contest
for me, not a killer competition. I knew there would be a learning curve to
the new software, and was sure the rate would suffer as I became familiar
with all the new features, and wanted to cross that hurdle before a real
competitive effort.

      If I had been CW or SSB, I would have never seen a problem, but for
rtty, something in my set-up caused N1MM+ some issues. It didn't matter if I
used <Alt-g> or my short-cut key, but anytime I "grabbed" 
a call to put into the entry window, it caused the software to think the
radio was keyed, and wouldn't let me change fields or change to the second
radio window unless I actually forced the radio to key up with a keyboard
command. Using the delete <DELSEL> caused the same hangup. For one who
enjoys SO2R, this caused a MAJOR slow-down. I disabled my shortcut keys,
re-wrote my macros, and checked my ptt key lines, but couldn't figure out
what caused the problem. Only about 300 Q's in the first 16 hours - sad. I
finally had enough and crashed for the night. On Sunday, I exported my log
from N1MM+, then imported it into N1MM classic. Aahhh...back to something I
know and love. 
About 5 hours Sunday afternoon and another 300 Q's and I'm feeling much
better.  Even with all the issues, I was up 144 contacts and 15K points, so
that's not too bad.

      I am NOT giving up on N1MM+. Now that I'm not in the middle of a
contest, I'll go back and see what is going on. There are several features
that make it really slick, and once I get it to work "my way", I'm sure I
will like it even more than classic.

73,
Mark, K5ER


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