Text expansion for callsign notes (prepend with .. or //)
(this last feature won’t be of much use for most people, but, if you work the same group of people frequently, you can use a custom call notes file and this new expansion feature)
Say, you know you often work KM4QNA and W1WC (the Tenniswoods!) together, you can add a line on your notes file that reads
QNA KM4QNA,W1WC
And then when you hear Anna during your operation, you enter ..QNA (the . gets converted to / but it’s the same) and then press enter or send, and it gets replaced with KM4QNA,W1WC in the callsign field.
Nice feature but I would have a different use case. For me I would want to put in the hunters first call sign that they give and then the system brings back all of their call signs and their name.
So in my text file I would propose the following:
VK1AO VK1AO,VK2MET Alan
And then I enter …VK1AO would it then put the two calls in the callsign field and display his name?
If I forgot to put the two dots in and just entered VK1AO, I presume it would display “VK1AO,VK2MET Alan” on the info line?
Correct. Right now I’m basically ~abusing~ leveraging the Call Notes files to store these, in order to avoid having to build a second separate set of UI elements to manage it.
But in theory, the kind of entries you want for expansion and the kind of entries you want for notes are not quite the same.