Hola my brethren on the radio waves,
I was hoping to get back to the tlf I left in 2014 and do so quietly
without having to explain anything. I have been involved in the Linux
community since 1996 and have experienced a lot. Unfortunately, in all
these years I have not met a single top CW operator, DXman and
contestman who was enthusiastic about Linux, wanted to use it and wanted
to actively contribute to the creation of a contest program for Linux
that would be comparable to e.g. N1MM, WriteLog, etc. And that's exactly
what I want!
The fact that I ran away from tlf was caused by numerous vicissitudes
surrounding its development, when its creators were unable to agree on
what they actually wanted. With gmfsk collaboration on the horizon and
the thought of digimodes, which I hate from the bottom of my heart, I
understood that efforts to adapt the tlf to active contesters were
riding a dead horse. For the past 8 years I have tried to be involved
everywhere I can, but I am not a programmer and since my age starts with
the number 7, I will never be one. My return to the tlf means that I
have not yet succeeded anywhere in my efforts. When I saw the progress
the tlf had made, I was as happy as a little boy. However, now I'm
starting to come back to reality and I have a stronger and stronger
feeling that even the tlf is not the right one, that the tlf has no future.
I would like to be one of the architects of this program, but only if
there is hope to create a compact, widely configurable program for which
no contest is a problem - something like TR4W, where for example the MWC
implementation took only 2 days. Hats off to N4AF and NY4I who are
driving the program today. Unfortunately, Wine is required to run TR4W
under Linux, and Wine is still not in a state where a program like TR4W
can work on platforms other than Intel or AMD. If the program should be
built from scratch, I probably won't see the result - at my age, if I
have to fight the consequences of lung cancer at the same time, the
probability of me contesting with my Odroid N2+ converges to zero.
Don't mind the terminal window and the modest ncurses interface, I can
live with it. The need to run the extra key as a daemon is annoying -
the program should do this itself. I'm gradually learning tlf again, I
spend an average of 2 hours a day on the manual, but besides how it
works, I come up with a lot of questions - I'd like to put them together
and publish them here in the newsletter, but please give me time.
I will appreciate any comments, I will be grateful to anyone who can
direct me, but above all I would like to know the intentions you have
with the tlf - what I can do in the foreseeable (really short) time. I
will also be glad if you write to me so that I don't get my hopes up -
even that is better news than no news.
73,
Martin, OK1RR
https://www.qrz.com/db/ok1rr
