WinWarbler General Settings

The General tab of WinWarbler's Configuration window contains 6 panels, each containing a related group of settings that you can inspect and/or modify. This window also provides four buttons along its bottom border:

operator	the operator's callsign appears in the main window title bar appears in the OPERATOR field of each log record is inserted into macros via the <mycall> command
show control explanations	when checked, enables the display of explanatory information when the mouse cursor lingers over a textbox, button, checkbox, display pane, or setting.
show 0 as Ø	when checked, displays the character 0 (zero) as Ø in receive panes.
waterfall right-click	when unchecked, right-clicking in the waterfall sets the transmit frequency and CTRL-right clicking invokes the optimal offset function when checked, right-clicking in the waterfall invokes the optimal offset function and CTRL-right clicking sets the transmit frequency
automatic lookup	when checked, DXKeeper, is directed to produce a filtered display showing previous QSOs with that callsign and perform a callbook lookup (if installed) when Double-clicking on a received callsign striking the enter key in the callsign textbox
automatic archiving	when checked, information presented on each pane is continuously appended to a separate file located in WinWarbler's AutoArchive subfolder
automatic archiving timestamp	when checked with automatic archiving enabled, records a timestamp in each active pane's archive file every 5 minutes
clear QSO Info on callsign capture	if checked, items in the QSO Info field will be cleared when a new callsign is entered, or when the Enter or Tab keys are struck while focus resides in the callsign item
set QSO Start when RST received	when checked, the QSO will be deemed to have started and its Start Time will be captured when the rst R textbox is modified
initialize RST items to 59/599	when checked, the rst S and rst R textboxes will, if empty, be set to 599 (or 59 if the Mode is Phone) when you strike Enter or double-click in the Call textbox or when you double-click on a callsign in a receive pane
highlight PSK RTTY sub-bands	when checked, highlight PSK sub-bands and RTTY sub-bands in the tuning display's frequency scale by displaying frequencies and tick marks in green
preset QSL checkbox	when checked, the QSL box is initialized to checked
prompt on QSO Info overwrite	when checked, if an action -- e.g. double-clicking on a SpotCollector spot database entry -- would overwrite unsaved QSO Info panel data from a QSO that has started, WinWarbler will display a dialog box allowing the user to allow or disallow the overwrite
use dual monitors	when checked, windows that appeared on the secondary monitor during the previous session will be restored to the secondary monitor at startup
log debugging information	when checked, writes diagnostic information to the file errorlog.txt in WinWarbler's folder

flag invalid callsigns	when checked, callsigns that doesn't contain at least one number and one label are flagged as invalid when logging is attempted
require DXCC	when checked, prevents the logging of QSOs for which no DXCC item has been selected unless the callsign is a mobile or begins with an exclamation point
export for DXbase	when checked, WinWarbler records frequencies in a format compatible with the DXbase logging program
default QSL msg	default QSL message used to initialize the QSO Info panel's QSL msg textbox when the Enter or Tab key is struck in the QSL Info panel's call textbox
default Tx Pwr	default QSL message used to initialize the QSO Info panel's TX Pwr textbox when the Enter or Tab key is struck in the QSL Info panel's call textbox
Clear Minilog	clicking this button deletes the Minilog file

contest mode	when checked, WinWarbler moves the cursor focus to the RX# textbox after you strike Enter in the QSO Info panel's call textbox records 59/599 in the rst S and rst R items of each log record when you double-click on a sequence of digits in a receive pane, copies that sequence into the RX# textbox when you double-click on a word in a receive pane while simultaneously depressing the ALTand CTRL keys, copies that word to the RX# textbox when you selecting a group of contiguous words in a receive pane while simultaneously depressing the ALT and CTRL keys, copies those words to the RX# textbox if the increment TX# setting is enabled, increments the contents of the TX# setting when the Log button is clicked, or when the <advance_tx_serial_number> macro substitution command is executed if DXKeeper is running and configured to perform previous QSO lookups, flags duplicate QSOs with the word Dup! to the left of the QSO Info panel's call textbox moves the cursor focus to the QSO Info panel's call textbox after any action that clears the QSO Info panel displays the word "Contest" followed by the default contest name in the Main window's title bar; if no default contest name is specified, displays "Contest: ?" Note: when you first start a contest, be sure to initialize TX#; clicking the Reset TX Serial# button will set TX# to 1.
contest	if contest mode is checked, the contents of this default contest name setting are used to initialize the QSO Info panel's Contest textbox when the Enter or Tab key is struck in the QSL Info panel's call textbox
TX#	the transmit serial number that will be logged with the next QSO (need not be numeric)
X	clicking this button sets TX# to 1
increment TX#	when checked, the transmit serial number is incremented (if its numeric) after each QSO is logged
place focus in RX# on DX Spot activation	when checked, places focus in the QSO Info panel's RX# item when a DX spot is activated in SpotCollector, DXView, or Commander
don't log contest, TX#, or RX# if contest mode is disabled	when checked while not it contest mode, disable the Contest, TX#, and RX# textboxes in the QSO Info panel, and logs the ADIF Contest, STX, and SRX items as empty strings

This panel lets you specify up to eight preset frequencies for selection via the QSO Info panel's Freq selector.

frequency 1	frequency (hz) of the red marker on the waterfall or spectrum display's frequency scale; double-clicking this setting clears it, suppressing display of the red marker
frequency 2	frequency (hz) of the blue marker on the waterfall or spectrum display's frequency scale; double-clicking this setting clears it, suppressing display of the blue marker