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[Tlf-devel] Stew Perry Topband Challenge (was: tlf-0.9.11)
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Wilbert Knol |
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[Tlf-devel] Stew Perry Topband Challenge (was: tlf-0.9.11) |
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Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:02:24 +1300 |
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Hi Jim,
I had a quick play with logcfg.dat and the Stew Perry rules file last
night, and I have TLF all ready to go.
It goes like this. Someone calls me. I type the callsign an hit F3.
TLF sends 5NNRE78. I hit TAB and the cursor pops across into the
exchange field. I take down the grid square and hit F4. TLF sends 'TU
ZL2BSJ'. I hit ENTER and it logs the QSO.
I started off with the template rules file in
/usr/local/share/tlf/rules
..and culled most of it. It has only a 3 or so lines in it.
(RECALL_MULTS, ONE_QSOPOINT, CONTEST=stew-perry and another minor
thing).
In fact, you don't actually *need* a rules file for this one. TLF has
no way of calculating the correct points/QSO according to grid square
separation.
So I just log them all as single pointers and let the contest manager
score the log.
In my view, the rules file should *only* have those things relate to
the contest, such as scoring rules. It should not even have anything
user-specific in it.
Anything else should go in logcfg.dat. I have system-wide rules files
and in my home directory, I have a tree of contests with per-contest
logcfg.dat files that define the CW messages.
> I'll keep tweaking the rules file. I didn't have a
> serial number field in the file, neither did I have
> points, but it certainly wants to assign points for
> every QSO.
Correct. It will score QSOs according to some default. Just ignore it.
> I may just run it in QSO mode if I can get
> around the problem below.
I run in CONTEST mode, and also in CT Mode as I dislike the S&P and
RUN mode business. Maybe CT compatibility mode will cure the
ENTER-ENTER problem you described.
> That would help, but I'm running rigs that are too old
> for that kind of control. ;-)
OK..fair enough. Incidentally: my IC725 is at least 18 years old. Must
have been one of the first rigs with computer control.
I don't know how you force TLF to start up on a particular band. I
would have thought that, if there is no rig control, TLF 'remembers'
the last band when you restart the program.
You should run up TLF and type
:INFO
to make sure the corerct log file and rules file are being used.
You can also start up TLF with the -v option to watch what it uses.
> Anything in the logcfg.dat or rules file that I could
> tweak?
Sorry: I forgot the bring in copies of my logcfg.dat and rules files.
Will try to do so in a few hrs && drop you a mail.
Wilbert.
PS: Will CC this to tlf-devel, in case it is of interest to others.
Wilbert.
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