Hi,
If you want a "TR-alike" contest program you might want to give TLF
(http://home.iae.nl/users/reinc/TLF-0.2.html) a try.
Console application, but runs in X-window; makes use of hamlib
(http://hamlib.sourceforge.net/) for radio- and rotorcontrol and cwdaemon
(http://www.qsl.net/pg4i/linux/cwdaemon.html) for cw-keying.
I have it installed on my laptop but did not do a life contest with it.
(Antenna is still on the ground).
73 Henk PA5KT
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:49:24 -0700, Kevin Schmidt wrote
> First let me say, I HAVE NOT USED ANY OF THIS ON THE AIR.
>
> I am set up to run TR under linux very similarly to Doug W9WI.
>
> dosemu 1.2.2
> dosemu-freedos beta 9 rc5
> running in an x window under xdosemu
>
> Here is some information on the computers I have tried it out on:
>
> Test computer 1
> linux kernel 2.6.7, Alsa sound
> TR 6.79
> Pentium 4, 2.2 GHz, 512 MB memory
>
> Test computer 2
> linux kernel 2.4.22, OSS sound
> TR 6.79
> Dual 200MHz pentium pro, 128 MB memory
>
> My comments:
>
> 1. I agree with Doug W9WI that it keys acceptably above 40 wpm. I
> usually start it as "tr slow", but that does not seem to matter much.
>
> 2. I also agree that doing much in other windows causes the cw to stutter.
> The 200 MHz machine seems to key as well as the 2.2 GHz one. The CW
> stutters if I use the mouse to drag windows around while it is
> sending. It also stutters if I start up a cpu bound calculation in
> the background
> (dosemu hogthreshold is set to the default of 1). However, during
> one test, the cron daemon started a job to update the slocate
> database and while accessing disk a lot, this did not seem to bother
> the cw sending.
>
> 3. sbdvp will play audio files but not record. When playing, the last
> fraction of a second of the audio file is chopped off which could be
> worked around by adding a little dead air at the end. If I get some
> time I will try to debug this.
>
> 4. Parallel port keying works fine and keys the rig cleanly. You do
> need to specify in the dosemu.conf which ports you want dosemu to
> have direct access to and their addresses. I have not tried using
> serial ports directly.
>
> 5. PTT with the parallel port works too.
>
> 6. I have com1 and com2 defined as pseudo ttys as described
> previously on the list. This allows me to connect to any standard
> linux utility. Both test computers are networked (via my home
> ethernet and wireless network with a dsl connection) I connected
> using telnet to a packet network. Using TR's multi-networking is
> very easy. I set MULTI PORT = SERIAL 2 in LOGCFG.DAT on both
> computers, I had in dosemu.conf: $_com2 = "/dev/ptyq2" and after
> firing up xdosemu, I ran ssh recievecomputer "cat < /dev/ttyq2"
> /dev/ttyq2
> in another window (receivecomputer is the name of the computer that
> you receive from in TR's network). Everything worked fine. I tested
> by running tr debug with the simulator on both computers with qso's going
> around the loop using my home wireless and ethernet.
>
> 73 Kevin w9cf
>
> =-------------------------------------------------------------
> Kevin Schmidt, w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu, http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
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