SideKar / SideKar Plus User Manual rev 3.2 Page 47 of 84
Grab & Go
™
The SideKar has a unique feature call Grab & Go
™
which
helps you to maintain the flow in contests or regular QSOs.
Grab & Go allows you capture (grab) a station
’s call at the
same time you are responding on the air. This is instead of
typing the other stations call in the Enter Call screen (
Alt-C
)
and then
sending it subsequently.
Here’s how it works. Shown is an example for a contest where
someone answers your CQ and you want to respond with the
contest exchange stored in message F2:
To define any message as a Grab & Go message,
place a “
@
” as the first character of the message.
Example: @ TU 599 CO
If you name you message, put the
@
after the colon, as
the first character of the message to be sent.
Example: Exchange:@ TU 599 CO
(where Exchange is the name of the message and is
not sent)
Then when you press F2, you will be prompted to enter
a call (that’s the ‘grab’ part):
o
Use the keyboard to type it in or use the paddle
to Key-board it in.
o
The call you are typing or keying
is
sent to the
rig and
will
go out on the air.
o
When you are finished sending the call, press
F2 again. The rest of the message in F2 will
then follow (that’s the ‘Go’ part).
In summary, the Grab & Go
™
flow is:
