Contest set-up and use...

[M0LEP]

I've been using RUMlogNG for a while to capture logs from WSJT-X, and it's been doing that just fine, talking both to WSJT-X and to my IC-7300.

At the beginning of last month I started a CWOps CW course. My instructor is keen to get us to participate in a couple of contests, the CWOps Mini Contests (CWT) mid-week, and the K1USN Slow Speed Test (SST) on Friday evenings. All the course instructions for contest participation assume we'll be running N1MM and I've never done any contests before so they're something of a black art . The closest I've got is using Morse Runner for training exercises.

I've noticed that both those contests are in RUMlogNG's list, and I've tried to follow the instructions under https://dl2rum.de/RUMlogNG/docs/en/pages/Contest.html to get it set up for them, but I can't figure out what needs to go into the Contest Preferencss CW F-keys, and I've not managed to find examples anywhere. Both contests (as far as I can tell) have un-changing exchanges (without RST or serial number). I think they should contain something like this:

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F1: CQ CWT <My Call>
F2: <His Call> RICK CWA
F3: TU 73
F4: <My Call>
F5: <His Call>
F6: <His Call> RICK CWA
F7: ?
F8: ?

...and for SST (in which I stand half a chance of maybe catching a caller or two, possibly), replace CWT with SST and CWA with DX.

Is that anywhere close to what's needed? I've experimented (with rig at zero power into a dummy load), and while the rig keys sometimes, there's something I'm not getting quite right (though I'm trying to follow the flows on https://dl2rum.de/RUMlogNG/docs/en/pages/InContest.html ) as it doesn't always key as expected or create a log entry.

[ct1drb]

Hi Rick,

how are you doing?

Name is David, calls are ct1drb and ok8rb and my qth is close to Lisbon.

Cool that you are learning CW. As a almost 100% CW operator I am very happy with it.

At same time it seems that you have problems with RUMlogNG and configuration with the CWOps settings.

If you want I can give help but I would like to have a king of a Skype session where we can talk and later one try to solve your problem.

So, if you have Skype let me know and then we can arrange a schedule to help you, my ID Skype is ct1drb.

Best 73 and have a nice week.

CT1DRB/OK8RB
David Quental

[M0LEP]

Thanks. I think I've mostly worked it out, at least for S&P mode. The mistakes I made were, first, mis-understanding the blue button that suggested (to me) that I needed to click it to perform the next action, and second, using F6 to send the S&P response and then not being able to get the entry into the log. There are clearly more tricks to learn, and I am slightly hampered by having a small keyboard that doesn't have distinct return and enter keys. I'll get there...

[IU3BRO]

What I cannot find in the Help, which is at least poor, is the name to give to the various variables, e.g. in other logger, {MYCALL} or @MYCALL or similar.
Somebody can please answer? Maybe the author of the software?
Thanks
73 Tilio iu3bro

[DL2RUM]

It's just in the CW settings: