On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:31:18PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I agree to a point, but if I'm not mistaken nearly all the radios
> capable of computer control receive their data through an RS-232
That'd be good news. The radio for which the software mentioned in
the howto was intended, required a converter box of some kind but
ended up being RS-232.
The only rigs I have that are supposed to be remote-controllable
are old 2M mobiles that have remote heads... they weren't meant
to be computer-controllable but I thought it'd be fun to try
doing that some day.
> I agree it's bad, but I wonder how many would lug a UPS to the Field
> Day site? Improved filesystems will help in this regard. Unfortunately,
> just because one is using a laptop doesn't mean a power failure won't
> occur. For example, I need to use a port replicator on this Thinkpad
> 760ED in order to use an external keyboard. To power the laptop off of
> AC, the unit has to be fed through the replicator and if that power
> is lost, the laptop dies as the battery won't take over. So, it's
> still a problem.
Bummer. Shortsighted design on IBM's part.
>
> I'm not aware of contest authorities not accepting logs generated
> per their format, but then I'm a casual 'tester. I do know that
> as of the November Sweepstakes 2000, ARRL will require logs to be
> submitted in their new Cabrillo format. Apparently, all the major
> DOS/Win logging program authros have agreed to support this format
> by then.
What does it look like?
>
> One question about a web browser based logger, will such an application
> require a running web server daemon (is that too obvious of a question)?
Yes. :-)
> I would love to see a completely modular system, but I understand this
> adds a certain level of complexity. Yet, if hams can figure out the
> new rigs, surely they can install a few more software packages...right?
> Right? RIGHT?
That's what good package management is for. On Debian it could be made
pretty foolproof; the log program has dependencies thus you ain't done
installin' until those dependencies are installed too. It would depend
on Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP (or Java/servlet engine/JSP engine), with
a browser, libradio-control and libcw being recommended. If everything
(the browser, database, web server and connections to radios) is all on
one machine it's easy; getting pieces of it distributed throughout a
network would require some RTFMing. (Aside... in case the web server
is not the machine with the radios hooked up, the radio control library
should probably be a network server... clients attach to port x and send
commands.)
Anyway the stupid hams probably won't be using Linux.
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