Re: R: Re: [Tlf-devel] Upload tlf-0.9.4 with band info output.

[rein couperus PA0R]

Great stuff Chris...

this is the info that brings tlf further... testing, testing, testing....
and the cqww is the best playground for this.

&3,  Rein PA0R

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 12:40, you wrote:
> Rein, we didn't erase logged qso's, all the corrections are only on
> paper. The qso number is not important for cqww.
>
> No problem for the log. more than 3000 qso should be a good test.
>
> sorry but i don't have a debug log.
>
> I had to do the sync of two logs because of a RF problem on 160m, the
> local network suffered from that and a dozen of logs were not
> received.
>
> Rein, the only big problem that we had during the contest (I have to
> recheck all my log for that, it is only a matter of time...no data
> was lost, that is the important thing ) is that when you enter a call
> and press enter, TLF will show you a zone, but this zone will be
> overwritten by the zone of the qso just logged on the other pc !! So,
> if you press ENTER to log the qso, the zone is wrong. I think that we
> have  logged 100-200 qso with this problem.

O.K., I think I know where to look for this... this is quite complicated 
stuff.
>
> 10-12 hb9's used TLF and told me that the left-right arrows for
> changing band is too dangerous. We have 10-15 qso logged on the wrong
> band just because of that. I think that you should add an option to
> logcfg.dat in order to disable that feature.

Can be done, no problem. Give me 5 minutes :-)

>
> We had one PC (the one used for backup) that kept crashing (every 4-5
> hours) due the segfault problem with packet radio. The other two pc
> were ok. We only had to reboot one of them a couple of times.

This bug could only be found during a real cqww contest :-) I plan to rewrite 
this part completely during the winter time...

>
> I'll send you other info as soon as I find the paper with my notes
> about TLF.... :-)

No problem, still 3 weeks until I fly to Tunesia for the cqwwcqcw...

>
> ciao
> 73 de hb9fbl chris
>
> ---- Messaggio originale ----
> Da: address@hidden
> A: address@hidden
> Oggetto: R: Re: [Tlf-devel] Upload tlf-0.9.4 with band info output.
> Data: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:16:30 +0100
>
> >Hi Chris,
> >
> >Can you send me the logs also?
> >1.: I want to analyse them for possible errors in the communication
> >protocol
> >2.: I am writing post/pre-contest analysis software, and I need lots
> >of logs
> >for that.
> >
> >It would be nice to also get the debuglogs if you have them...
> >
> >Tnx for the trouble.
> >
> >73, Rein PA0R
> >
> >On Tuesday 28 October 2003 00:44, Chris HB9FBL wrote:
> >> Hi Rein,
> >> at the HB9OK contest club we used tlf 0.9.3 for our first Multi/2.
> >
> >2
> >
> >> slackware 9.1 with a wireless link.
> >> I'll send you a detailed report tomorrow.
> >>
> >> BTW: I had to sync the two logs with:
> >>
> >> cat cqww1.log cqww2.log | sort -g -k4,4 | uniq -w79 > cqww.log
> >
> >This works fine, but you have to remove the deleted qso's from the 2
> >logs
> >first, otherwise they are back into the master log...
> >I always make a note in the log after deleting a qso. This is common
> >practise
> >in TRlog :-)
> >You can also spot deleted qso's from the fact that the qso number is
> >repeated
> >in the log.
> >
> >> ciao
> >>
> >> 73 de chris hb9fbl
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "rein couperus PA0R" <address@hidden>
> >> To: <address@hidden>
> >> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:19 PM
> >> Subject: [Tlf-devel] Upload tlf-0.9.4 with band info output.
> >>
> >> > New upload: tlf-0.9.4, tested last weekend. From the README:
> >> >
> >> > - added band output routine for cwdaemon-0.7
> >> > New parameter: BANDOUTPUT to activate.
> >> > Cwdaemon-0.7 will output band info on pins 2, 7,8 and 9 of the
> >> > parallel port. 160m = 1, 80m = 2 .... 10m = 9. This default is
> >
> >compatible
> >
> >> > with commercial band decoders.
> >> > You can also use non-standard coding:
> >> > BANDOUTPUT=12484848 will put pin 9 high to switch your 3-bander
> >
> >etc... no
> >
> >> > need for a decoder, a few relays will do... unless you also want
> >
> >to
> >
> >> > switch your bandfilters (the coding is for
> >
> >160,80,40,30,20,17,15,12,10).
> >
> >> > - known bugs:
> >> > tlf seg faults when switching from the NEEDED band map to the
> >
> >spot list
> >
> >> > with very large band maps (the 10m bandmap had 150 entries during
> >
> >cqwwssb
> >
> >> > sunday afternoon)
> >> > ce0y/sp9spt shows up as Poland instad of Easter Island...
> >> >
> >> > 73,
> >> >
> >> > Rein PA0R
> >> >
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