This is the first I have used Tlf since Tom released the 1.2 series. Congratulations, Tom, this is the best experience I have had with Tlf. Well done.
I am adjusting my habits to the TR--Enter Sends Message (ESM) in N1MM parlance--key sequencing and it works well. I just have to remember to switch between CQ and S&P modes. Once I do that, the operation is very slick. As the exchange in ARRL 160m is quite simple, so long as the exchange field is empty, pressing <Enter> sends my call rather than reaching up to press F6. I like! Operation is just as smooth in CQ mode. I've operated about four hours or so between last night and this morning and put 115 Qs in the log, mostly S&P, although I did manage a short run this morning. Band isn't great and my 100W from a short wire struggles to be heard it seems. Granted, a lot of ops may be dealing with local noise while I have a very quiet location. Now a few things I'll put on my TODO list. Editing keys. Once characters are in the call field the left arrow enters edit mode. I'd like the <Home> key to do the same while jumping the cursor to the first character in the field. Often a person only copies the suffix of the call and being able to jump to the front of the string with one key press rather than several is probably expected behavior. As with <Home> above, the <End> key should exit edit mode and position the cursor after the last character. This will likely be a synonym of <Enter> in this case and is an intuitive key press for many users. Sort out the cases where some cty.dat entities are ARRL sections or entities. For the most part this would affect ARRL 160, ARRL FD, and ARRL SS where all US territories are counted as an ARRL section. For other events such as ARRL DX they are entities rather than sections, as I recall, so there may need to be an addition rules file keyword and some logic added. I do have a rules file for ARRL 160m USA in my repository and it is in a pending pull request to Tom. Also in that pull request is a fix for the MULT_LIST rules parameter where the file will be loaded from the installed files if it doesn't exist in the local working directory. This will avoid having to copy a file such as arrlsections into the working directory each time when a distributed mults file is used. For keying the CW I am using the updated winkeydaemon.pl from Wilbert, PE7T, with my HamGadgets MK-1. I did patch it to enable the debug command line switch. It too has been working flawlessly. I can create and push the code to a repository on GitHub if anyone is interested. Control of my K3 with Hamlib has worked flawlessly as well. 73, Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Tlf-devel mailing list Tlf-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tlf-devel
