Post 015: A Clean Sweep for Christmas
Subtitle: 50 states, 23 WPM, and owning my rookie mistakes.
I’ve shared my journey with you so far, and honestly, I have just about told you everything I have to say up to this point! This has been my life in radio. Hopefully, I’ll stay on track with my goals so I’ll have plenty more to share soon.
#HamRadio #POTA #CW #HAMRS #N1MM #DitsAndData #ParksOnTheAir
Here's my recent rant about #n1mm logger plus which I sent to a friend: To use it you need to have good hand eye coordination, be able to type with 10 fingers or be a quick 2-finger typer, not be dyslectic, have good eyesight because of the terrible small font in Windows, have the latest version installed, know what UDC and CHF are and at least have a higher education!
Why do people insist on using it? As a contest manager I have seen terrible logs coming out of n1mm! #amateurradio #hamradio
I needed a moment of intellectual success.
Ported my working ArduinoWifi code to ESP32.
Captures N1MMlogger's XML UDP broadcast.
Parses data to basic band decoding info over LAN. Even for my so2r setup.
Yay! For now it's just a 'proof of concept'... And to get to know ESP32.
#hamradio #amateurradio #n1mm #diyhamradio
#hamradioproject #HamRadioHomebrew
"KI" sei Dank, wird das ein entspanntes Wochenende 😁
N1MM Logger+ hat seit ein paar Wochen den Sprachsynthi Piper integriert. Rechtzeitig vorm WAG wird natürlich noch die eigene Stimme trainiert ... trainieren lassen ^^
PE1EEC hat ein AFu-lastiges Script gebaut, Anleitung für eine ganze Reihe Python-Späße dabei, wunderbare Sache, MNI TNX!
I guess I should note that I've been using #Linux since 0.99.3 (ca 1990), but the programs I use (#N3FJP AC Log, #N1MM+ Logger) are windows-only.
This is also going to serve as an excuse to write my own logger (yaarcl) with the features I want (nice API, full MVC, etc). Oh, and no "super classes" with all the logic contained therein - gotta keep 'em separated.
API is important for interfacing to GPS - automatic updating of state/county/grid/cqz/ituz
I've been working on getting my various #HamRadio programs working under #Linux and #Wine. I'm getting there; it'll be nice to get out for some more #ParksOnTheAir soon...
#N1MM and #fldigi don't play nicely unless they're both the wine variants; N1MM tries to look up the window by title.
The audio enumeration thing not being implemented in wine was especially aggravating; but I managed to get N1MM to stop trying to do that.
The station was build around an ICOM IC-7300 #shortwave transceiver. We used a laptop running the #N1MM contest logging software with a secondary monitor and an external keyboard for the first operator.
We provided a sideswiper single lever paddle as well as a #junker straight key. Only downside was one had to unplug and reconnect when wanting to switch between them. That's to be improved.
Published my TS-890 band scope to N1MM spectrum display Python script as open source on GitHub in case its of interest to anyone else: https://github.com/JonathanPerkins/ts890-n1mm-spectrum #N1MM #TS890
After a few hours of Python wrangling, I’ve got a script that connects over the LAN to my TS-890S, fetches the bandscope data and translates it to N1MM XML format and sends to N1MM. So now the spectrum display works with overlayed spots 👍 #N1MM #TS890
Notes on Field Day 2023
I wrapped up another field day with my friend Paul (W7PEZ) in Eastern Washington. For the two days, I had 204 contacts, broken out roughly as:
Yes, I worked SSB. It was kinda Frankfurt United Norway
Displaying K4 Spectrum in N1MM
In mid-December, N1MM (version 1.0.9758) introduced a spectrum display option supporting the Elecraft K4 radio. Below is a walk-through on setting it up.
For this to work, your radio will need to be connected to your local network. You can check this by tapping the Menu option and scrolling to the middle. You should see a valid IP address like in the screenshot above.
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I just confirmed that #WinterFieldDay ADIF logs created using the WFD template in the #HAMRS logging software can be directly imported into a WFD log opened in the #N1MM contest logger.
N1MM can then be used to generate a #Cabrillo version of the log.
This simplifies the process of converting logs into the required Cabrillo format for submission, and allows me to leave my laptop at home and log with HAMRS on my iPad or even the iPhone.
