Call Stacking

Call stacking is an advanced feature that supports entering more than one call at a time into a call field, separated by commas. The first call in the list is the “active” call, used by SkookumLogger for tasks like duplicate testing and partials matching. Logging a QSO or clearing a QSO entry field promotes the next entry in the list to be the active call.

This feature helps you chain QSOs when you are able to copy multiple callers answering your CQ. The default definition for the Unstack QSO message is “R NW * &” . Use call stacking as follows with keyboard focus and transmit focus in the Run QSO Entry box:

Type a call followed by a comma and another call.
When the first caller stops transmitting, send His Call + Exchange . While the message is transmitting, you can edit his call or the call after the comma call as needed.
When you have finished entering the received information for the first caller, send Acknowledge + Log . The QSO with the first caller is logged, the call and trailing comma is erased, and the Unstack QSO message is sent, substituting the newly-active call for the received call token.
When you have finished entering the received information for the newly-active caller, send Acknowledge + Log again to log the newly-active caller and possibly proceed to the next stacked call as above.

Call stacking also works with the Begin QSO message in place of the His Call + Exchange message and the End QSO message in place of the Acknowledge + Log message, and with Magic Message .

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