On 07/31/2012 06:25 PM, Al Hills wrote:
> After I setup hamlib for my rig (icom 703) and clicking the
> initialize button I get an I/O error. I think it may have something
> to do with permissions but don't know for sure. It worked fine until
> I installed Ubuntu 12.04. Everything else with FLDIGI works fine.
> Just this one problem that I can not fix. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Al  AA7CU
>
>
>

Lets see, have you read the help files ?

Have you read the wiki ?

Have you searched for older forum posts ?

Do you not care to try and use flrig ?

Open a terminal ::

sudo adduser (your user name) dialout.

Log out/in.

Ed W3NR

On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Ed <autek@...> wrote:

 

On 07/31/2012 06:25 PM, Al Hills wrote:
> After I setup hamlib for my rig (icom 703) and clicking the
> initialize button I get an I/O error. I think it may have something
> to do with permissions but don't know for sure. It worked fine until
> I installed Ubuntu 12.04. Everything else with FLDIGI works fine.
> Just this one problem that I can not fix. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Al AA7CU
>
>
>

Actually, me too, on my IC-703.

FLRig, latest, compiled with the defaults (to /usr/local, no CPU optimizations) lights up my Rigblaster Pro (all lights come on!) and the radio goes into transmit. If I ctrl-C out, everything on the Rigblaster goes back to normal, the rig comes out of transmit but I have to reset the radio before I can connect via FLDIGI.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the suggestions on how to fix the rig control problem I was having.
The suggestion to add me to dialout did the trick. The correct syntax was
"adduser user name dialout". That allowed FLDIGI to communicate with the radio
and the radio to communicate with FLDIGI. I did need to play with some of the
timing adjustments but it now works just as it does in Windows 7.

Thanks again to everyone who helped. I am a rank beginner with Linux and need
all the help I can get!

Al  AA7CU

I've never operated DominoEX but I'm wanting to try.

In the manual it says "The text displayed in the status area is the secondary
text being sent by the transmitting station.  When the keyboard buffer is empty
the DominoEX modem transmits text from the secondary text buffer.  Your
secondary text buffer can be edited on the DominoEX configuration tab."

Can't for the life of me find the DominoEX configuration tab. I've looked
through everything on the configuration drop down menu and perhaps I missed it,
or is it found somewhere else?

And I'm curious why this feature is there in the first place. Could it be a
"place holder" to show the channel is occupied? I can see where commercial
stations might want this but what good is it for hams?

Many thanks,

73, Bill W6WRT

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:56:37 -0700, you wrote:

>
>Most people stick their callsign in there so that their call is always
>transmitted.

REPLY:
Ok makes sense, but my other question is still unanswered: Where do I find the
DominoEX Configuration Tab?

Thanks,

73, Bill W6WRT

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:46:40 -0700
"Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@...> wrote:

> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:56:37 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Most people stick their callsign in there so that their call is
> >always transmitted.
>
> REPLY:
> Ok makes sense, but my other question is still unanswered: Where do I
> find the DominoEX Configuration Tab?

See here:

http://w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-3.21/configDomEX.html

It appears that if this is empty it defaults to the callsign set on the
Operator tab.

--

Brian Morrison

Regarding the latest version of flmsg (1.1.22),

If I compose a message with the "radiogram" format, there seems to be no way to
get a "plain text" version of the message that includes the field headers like
"origin", "number", and so on. This is a little confusing because we are using
flmsg to compose messages that will be sent as plain text, and the receiving
station doesn't use flmsg, so they rely on the field descriptions in the text
message to understand what we are sending them. Checking and unchecking the
"standard format" box appears to do nothing other than change the "format"
header to a Y or F.

Is there a way to get a plain text message, composed with the radiogram form,
that shows the field names?

On 08/01/2012 08:02 AM, doctordruidphd wrote:
> Regarding the latest version of flmsg (1.1.22),
>
> If I compose a message with the "radiogram" format, there seems to be no way
to get a "plain text" version of the message that includes the field headers
like "origin", "number", and so on. This is a little confusing because we are
using flmsg to compose messages that will be sent as plain text, and the
receiving station doesn't use flmsg, so they rely on the field descriptions in
the text message to understand what we are sending them. Checking and unchecking
the "standard format" box appears to do nothing other than change the "format"
header to a Y or F.
>
> Is there a way to get a plain text message, composed with the radiogram form,
that shows the field names?
>
please restate this question on the Yahoo group, NBEMSham.  Thank you.

Dave, W1HKJ

• Fedora
• Mandrake
• SuSE

Sorry about that, will do.

--- In linuxham@yahoogroups.com, w1hkj <w1hkj@...> wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2012 08:02 AM, doctordruidphd wrote:
> > Regarding the latest version of flmsg (1.1.22),
> >
> > If I compose a message with the "radiogram" format, there seems to be no way
to get a "plain text" version of the message that includes the field headers
like "origin", "number", and so on. This is a little confusing because we are
using flmsg to compose messages that will be sent as plain text, and the
receiving station doesn't use flmsg, so they rely on the field descriptions in
the text message to understand what we are sending them. Checking and unchecking
the "standard format" box appears to do nothing other than change the "format"
header to a Y or F.
> >
> > Is there a way to get a plain text message, composed with the radiogram
form, that shows the field names?
> >
> please restate this question on the Yahoo group, NBEMSham.  Thank you.
>
> Dave, W1HKJ
>

 

https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki/WikiStart

Has been updated with new HOWTO documentation:

Installing Lubuntu / NBEMS software / fine tuning.

Creating your own "Digipup".  The latest Puppy with all of the NBEMS suite installed.

73, Dave, W1HKJ

Hi Dave,

What's the procedure to sign up to edit the wiki? I see a login link but not a registration link.

Also, I don't see a link to the wiki on either your home page or the fldigi page on your site.

 

On 08/01/2012 10:43 AM, Creede Lambard wrote:

Hi Dave,

What's the procedure to sign up to edit the wiki? I see a login link but not a registration link.

register here https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

The link to the registration page is on this page https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/, 2/3 of the way down the page under Wiki.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 04:02:03 -0700, you wrote:

>
>>Where do I find the DominoEX Configuration Tab?
>
>On 3.21.49 click Configure on the menu, then click Modems then click the Dom
tab.  On 3.21.33 the tab was called DomEX.
>
>Andy
>MM0FMF
>
>

REPLY:
Aha!  And I see that's where the FEC check box is too. Hadn't thought of a mode
as a modem.   :-)

Thanks,

73, Bill W6WRT

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:04:41 +0100, Brian wrote:

>
>http://w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-3.21/configDomEX.html
>
>It appears that if this is empty it defaults to the callsign set on the
>Operator tab.

REPLY:
Thanks Brian. I really need to read the ENTIRE help file.  :-)

73, Bill W6WRT

On 08/01/2012 08:58 AM, w1hkj wrote:

 

On 08/01/2012 10:43 AM, Creede Lambard wrote:

Hi Dave,

What's the procedure to sign up to edit the wiki? I see a login link but not a registration link.

register here https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

The link to the registration page is on this page https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/, 2/3 of the way down the page under Wiki.

That was easy, thanks. :-)

On 08/01/2012 12:42 PM, w1hkj wrote:
> Shout if you have any question about creating a new page.  If you are
> going to create a HOWTO for a distro:
>
> visit
> https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki/Documentation/HOWTO/Lubuntu_installation
>
>
> and save the page as text (bottom of page)
>
> Then visit and print https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki/WikiFormatting
>
> for general info on formatting a Wiki page.
>
> Edit the save'd HOWTO page (off line using a text editor ... not NotePad
> please) to create your new HOWTO
>
> then visit the fldigi-Wiki-sandbox
> https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki/SandBox
>
> select the "Create this page" button and then copy and insert your new
> HOWTO page into the edit box.  You can review the page, submit it, and
> then rename it.  For the HOWTO the name should be
>
> Documentation/HOWTO/<new HOWTO page name>
>
> Then goto this page
> https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki/Documentation/HOWTO
>
> select "Edit this page"  to add the link to your new HOWTO.  Adding the
> link should be obvious after you've studied the existing page.
>
> That's about it folks.
>
> 73, Dave, W1HKJ

Do we need a how-to page on the wiki for this ????

Ed W3NR

--- In linuxham@yahoogroups.com, "qrv@..." <qrv@...> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
>  Have you tried Fluppy or Puppee (derivatives of Puppy),
> or Saluki?
>
>  All three come from a developer who goes by the screen
> name "Jemimah" - that person is brilliant with netbooks!
>
>  Fluppy 013 was the last in the older series, not sure
> about the versioning of Puppee, but many still use them on netbooks,
> Saluki is the latest project - targeted to newer (5 years or newer)
> computers.
>
>  I had Fluppy on netbooks when nothing else worked right.
>
>  Just a thought.
>
>
> > Due to the other laptop that I had running Linux Mint or Ubuntu
> > depending on what hard drive I had fitted, suffering terminal screen
> > hinge failure, I've picked up one of the little Acer One's, for a
> > very good price (less than 1/3rd the new cost) with 1G RAM, and 16G
> > SSD, also another 8G expansion.
> >
> > I know this keeps cropping up, and I've looked in the message
> > archives and found some of you have indeed got Fldigi working on the
> > tiny Acer One, with the Linpus Lite OS.
> >
> > But just exactly how? Like blow by blow details please.
> >
> > Linpus is Fedora(8) based I believe, as a result, it's even more
> > alien to me than Debian based systems, where I can just about find my
> > way around without too much trouble.
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks! & 73, KD4E.com
> David Colburn nevils-station.com
> I don't google I SEARCH! duckduckgo.com
> Network: groups.yahoo.com/group/qrv
> Restored to design-spec at Heaven's gate 1Cor15:22
>

Hi.

Sorry, but no I didn't try Puppy, or Fluppy, though I have used Pup' before on
older machines.  I still have an older laptop somewhere with it loaded, but it's
barely got the grunt to run Fldigi and PSK31, let alone anything else.   When it
had W98 on it, it used to run Digipan a treat, but I wanted other modes.

At present, I have Fldigi/Flrig working well on this little Acer One, that now
runs Lubuntu, that I'm actually using do to this via the web (because I can't be
bothered to go get my portable hard drive with the email on!)

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

73.

Dave G0WBX.

Hi Dave,

When you get tired of that cramped keyboard try using a USB
Keyboard/Mouse combo.  And plug in an external monitor.  It will make
that netbook think it's one of the big dogs.  My big fat fingers do
better on the external keyboard when I'm testing things on the Lenovo
S10 netbook.  I've even taken it to church and plugged it in to the
projection system.  Linux on a 12 x 16 foot screen ... that's a hoot.

Dave

Compiled Fldigi, Flrig, Fllog, Flmsg, Flwrap on Ubuntu 12.04 with no problems
following the instructions given in this forum.  I'm using the Mate' interface
because I like the old fashioned and, I think, simpler and more intuitive look. 
It was necessary to add my user id to the dialout group to gain access to the
serial port.  I'm using a USB CT-17 interface for cat control and a Creative
Audigy SE soundcard for audio interface.  The rig interface is an MFJ 1278.  I
use a serial port for PTT control for safety's sake.  The rigs to be used
include an Icom 756 Pro and an Icom 706Mk2g.

One glitch I've found in Flrig is if you use cat control for PTT and
inadvertently close flrig while the transmitter is keyed, it STAYS keyed. 
Restarting flrig reconnects to the rig OK but does not reset PTT.  It still
stays in PTT until you cycle the PTT control ... hence the use of hardware
control for PTT.

Suggestion: include in the start-up and shutdown routines for connecting to and
disconnecting to the rig a signal to drop PTT.  I looked at the code but my
programming skills are extremely rusty and I couldn't figure out how to do it in
the rig definition code.  I probably missed something.  Still, it would be good
to drop the rig out of transmit when connecting and disconnecting.  If you have
to restart the PC because of a hang up, re-starting fldigi will reset the rig.

Bruce, K4TQL

dar dididit

I have posted Ben's RigCAT XML file for the IC-9100.

73, Dave, W1HKJ

Dear David,
I've created a RigCAT XML file for the ICOM IC-9100. Please find the
attached file.

I'm the only one who has tested it, i don't know a IC-9100 user around,
but i think there are others who would like to use this. Maybe you can
put this on your XML files site?

Best regards,
Ben Stienstra, PD0B

system:  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
          Laptop computer

Recently I noticed that when I compile any of the
flxxx programs, the resulting font is less than
desirable.  However, if I instead use the binary
version, the font looks O.K.  With the binary
version I do get an error message when issuing
the --version option but the program(s) seem to
work O.K.

Dave told me I need to add some fonts to my system
but I'm unsure how to do that.

Any help appreciated.

73, Mike, K0TER

On 08/02/2012 11:10 AM, mike.k0ter wrote:
> system:  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
>           Laptop computer
>
> Recently I noticed that when I compile any of the
> flxxx programs, the resulting font is less than
> desirable.  However, if I instead use the binary
> version, the font looks O.K.  With the binary
> version I do get an error message when issuing
> the --version option but the program(s) seem to
> work O.K.
>
> Dave told me I need to add some fonts to my system
> but I'm unsure how to do that.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> 73, Mike, K0TER
>
>
>

Try selecting the mono font. If it still does not look right, check and
see what version of fltk you are using. Needs to be 1.3. The 10.04
default fltk was 1.1.

Ed W3NR

system: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Laptop computer
Recently I noticed that when I compile any of the flxxx programs, the resulting font is less than
desirable. However, if I instead use the binary
version, the font looks O.K. With the binary
version I do get an error message when issuing
the --version option but the program(s) seem to
work O.K.
Dave told me I need to add some fonts to my system
but I'm unsure how to do that.
Any help appreciated.
73, Mike, K0TER

Posted by: "w1hkj" w1hkj@... w1hkj

Hi Dave,

When you get tired of that cramped keyboard try using a USB
Keyboard/Mouse combo.  And plug in an external monitor.  It will make
that
netbook think it's one of the big dogs.  My big fat fingers do better on
the external keyboard when I'm testing things on the Lenovo S10 netbook.
I've even taken it to church and plugged it in to the projection system.
Linux on a 12 x 16 foot screen ... that's a hoot.

Dave
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Holy Penguin!  (or similar....)

Hi Dave (too many of us!)

Yes, I've done that trick with many a laptop (external keys-n-rat) when
I've had to spend "Lots" of time with something while away from base.  A
"Real" mouse in particular is a real boon, not so much the keyboard, but
it's a personal thing too.   I do have a little 12" VGA screen, also 12V
powered, so there is an option for an alternative fitting scheme.

For what I intend using it for, it's ideal in it's "small" format.  Plus,
it only sucks about 1A from my vehicle supply, via a DC/DC converter,
even when running Fldigi etc.   MUCH less, than the near 3A other
laptops/notebooks I have take.  It's the 706 that's the power hogg now on
RX.   The above menitoned external screen, takes another 1.5A

Now...  If you can ever get the I/Q audio I/O working, true low power
(requrements) portable operation can be done, with a simple SDR,
something like the Ensamble.   (???  That would also need Si570 support
in Flrig.)

(My Linux skills aren't yet up to getting Quisk or similar working, and
routing audio hither and thither with Jack, and I'm not sure the little
Acer would cope well doing all that either.  Comments ?)

73 Dave.

Dave G0WBX.