Dear Tlf users, after a few weeks, it looks like I could made an "alpha" version of QTC support for Tlf. Currently there is only the receive direction supported, but there are few question, wich I would like to discuss here with you.
First, here is a short intro to help to discover the QTC receive in Tlf. You can grab the source from my Github repository: git chechkout https://github.com/airween/tlf.git or the zip arhive: https://github.com/airween/tlf/archive/waedc-qtc.zip On the source tree, there is a short HOWTO about the QTC's handling, this is available online: https://github.com/airween/tlf/blob/waedc-qtc/README_QTC.txt When you compile and install it, make a new, separated working directory for Tlf. Here is a sample Tlf config: https://gist.github.com/airween/11315194, there are two files: a logcfg.dat, (there is nothing special), and a rule file - that contains a new config option, called "QTC", in line # 5. To help the test, it could be good idea to copy any WAEDC contest log to Tlf working directory, used by that name, which defined in logcfg.dat, in that example is waedc.log. If you don't have WAEDC log, use can use any other contest log, where the exchange is a SERIAL, eg. CQ-WPX. Before you want to test this feature, please read carefully the WAEDC rules, specially the rule 7 (QTC traffic): http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/contest/waedc/en/rules/ Another helpful links are here: http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/~dj1yfk/qtcs/ - many QTC traffic in mp3 format, which contains SSB and CW traffic http://dl1mgb.com/contest/index.php#cw - same as above Here are some questions/things, what needs to discuss here: * to catch CTRL+Q, it needed to set up the terminal settings in Tlf, and restore it to default, as before you start it. The code in the main.c: 423. tcgetattr( STDIN_FILENO, &oldt); 424. newt = oldt; 425. 426. newt.c_iflag &= ~(IXON); 427. 428. tcsetattr( STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &newt); and 829. tcsetattr( STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &oldt); it needs to test this in many type of terminal as possible. * there are several QTC messages - does it need to possible to configure the messages? For example: if you opens the QTC window, Tlf sends a "QTC QRV". This is one of the many messages. Would you like to customize these? * does it need to see the previous QTC blocks, like the QSO's? If you pressing the UP cursor, after the 5 lines Tlf hide the main window, and loads a pager, like "less" - would you like to see some similar feature? If yes, how would you like to use that? * does it need to delete the QTC's? There are two questions: does it need to delete only one, or more lines from a unique QTC block? And does it need to delete a complete QTC block? * does it need to show the number of received/sent QTC's on the main window? That's not a simple question, because on the RTTY mode, both directions are enabled, so a station can has sent and received QTC's too. * how could be good to calculate the points? Now if you send/receive a QTC block, then the number of QSO's in QTC will be added to the regular QSO's, so you can't see the total number of QSO's, only if you summary the bands values. So, now I have these questions above. I think here are many OM's, who has more experience in QTC's than me. Handling QTC's is not a simple thing, so please help me to make a good program :). TNX, 73, Ervin HA2OS -- I � UTF-8 _______________________________________________ Tlf-devel mailing list Tlf-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tlf-devel
