Fldigi Macros - Examples Wanted
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:09 pm
Hi,
The summer is ending this weekend and with it the 6M activity.
This year had a couple of firsts for me (my first Oliva Contact on 6M), and so it got me thinking how I could get it together a bit more for next time.
I kept seeing posts on VK Logger saying beacon mode on. or CW Beacon active etc and wondered how your doing that.(Probably a real beginner question)
I have been trying to work out how to get that functionality out of Fldigi using the Macros. Should be easy enough , but not for me it seems.
Google didn't help this time.
Does anyone have a source of example Fldigi macros ? More that what's included in the default build.
Have yo done anything interesting with the macro function?
Here's my thinking.....
I can beacon out say Olivia, all day long but unless you know exactly what it is, or have a well trained Digital ear, you have very little chance of picking the right mode other than going through each one in the list.
I want a macro that sends an Olivia CQ type beacon, then automatically switches to CW at 20wpm to describe the mode used.
So in practice , you hear the CW , decode it, it tells you what mode i'm sending , you set the mode and we are away. Same as having CW id at the end of a WSPR transmission.
But this one is telling you who I am and the mode I was using.
The next step is to script a contact sequence similar to JT65 to automatically complete the contact for a given mode and log it automatically.
Brian
VK2XTC
The summer is ending this weekend and with it the 6M activity.
This year had a couple of firsts for me (my first Oliva Contact on 6M), and so it got me thinking how I could get it together a bit more for next time.
I kept seeing posts on VK Logger saying beacon mode on. or CW Beacon active etc and wondered how your doing that.(Probably a real beginner question)
I have been trying to work out how to get that functionality out of Fldigi using the Macros. Should be easy enough , but not for me it seems.
Google didn't help this time.
Does anyone have a source of example Fldigi macros ? More that what's included in the default build.
Have yo done anything interesting with the macro function?
Here's my thinking.....
I can beacon out say Olivia, all day long but unless you know exactly what it is, or have a well trained Digital ear, you have very little chance of picking the right mode other than going through each one in the list.
I want a macro that sends an Olivia CQ type beacon, then automatically switches to CW at 20wpm to describe the mode used.
So in practice , you hear the CW , decode it, it tells you what mode i'm sending , you set the mode and we are away. Same as having CW id at the end of a WSPR transmission.
But this one is telling you who I am and the mode I was using.
The next step is to script a contact sequence similar to JT65 to automatically complete the contact for a given mode and log it automatically.
Brian
VK2XTC