开云体育

Bob Parr via groups.io <parr@...> wrote:

Practice mode should toggle TX only in CW mode, leaving digi mode alone.
Perhaps there could be a separate setting to globally toggle TX off, if
anyone needs it.

Is the purpose of this for the radio to keep functioning (say listening
to and replying to JS8 heartbeats) while you are practicing?

No, not at the same time (although it would be another nice add-on). Let's
think of a (common, I think) scenario when you buy QMX to use it as a digi
transceiver and you plan to go on air with CW one day, but you're not
ready yet, so you're either transmitting digi, or practicing CW. There's a
single switch to toggle between digi and CW modes, so you just press it
and when you're in CW mode, QMX wouldn't transmit, because you set it up
this way.

It's set up this way on my desk. There's a USB and antenna connected for
digi, and paddle and speaker for practicing CW. When I want to stop
catching pokemons on wsjt-x and start practicing CW, in addition to
switching between digi and CW, I have to go through menus and toggle the
practice mode.

I just think that "practice mode" doesn't make sense when it comes to
digi. It should be called differently ("Enable TX" or something; I think
there might be a need for it, if someone wants to be 200% sure that they
won't transmit when they play with settings on a PC, etc.), and not placed
in the "CW Keyer" menu.