The Macros Manager is used for setting up your macros. Macros are blocks of standard, repetitive text that are used in QSO's.

The idea is to define standard QSO text that then becomes avaialable to be dropped into your transmission with a single mouse click. They save repetitive typing.

There are a number of buttons and similar menu selections to help you with creating or editing your macros.
New - When defining a macro, there are two types of tags that you can add:

[1] Fixed tags:[date], [time], [imd], [stop], [program], [cw-id-on] and [cw-id-off].

  Example: "It is now [date] and [time]"
  Example: "Software is [program]"
  Example: "IMD reading is [imd]"
  Example: "Bye-bye sk[stop]"
  [cw-id-on] and [cw-id-off] control sending a CW identification after the text is sent.

[2] Normal tags which you define yourself, for example:

  <callsign>
  <name>
  <rst>
  <weather>

  Example: "<callsign> <callsign> de HB9DRV HB9DRV k"
  Example: "Thank-you <name>, your RST is <rst>"
Options:

Prompt: when a macro is selected a popup window appears where you enter the values for the tags defined in the macro.

Erase: - before the macro is added all text in the TX window is erased.

Send: - the macro is sent immediately, if not in Tx mode then the program is switched to Tx mode.
Notes:

** Tag names are case-sensitive.

** With PSK31, lowercase characters are sent quicker than uppercase characters.
Created 2004 by Kevin Crockett. Comments and suggestions may be e-mailed to