Re: [Xlog-discussion] Cwdaemon... still trying... [SOLVED]
Despite hearing nothing from the computer, I wired up the computer's parallel port to the transceiver's key jack, turned the internal keyer and the output power off, pressed F1... and CQ de... test! So cwdaemon and the Xlog keyer are working! Obviously I should have tried wiring up the cable earlier. The lost item is always in the last place we look! Now, to play with this thing a little... --John K3GHH On 05/09/2014 12:01 PM, John B. Egger wrote: In September 2013 some in the group offered help but I never could get cwdaemon working. Trying again, with: Kubuntu Trusty (14.04) Xlog 2.0.11 Cwdaemon 0.9.5-1.1 Although /etc/default/cwdaemon shows START_CWDAEMON=yes, on this morning's boot-up ps -A did not show it running. Simply typing cwdaemon at the user prompt brought the warning that it had to be run as root, and sudo cwdaemon added it to the ps -A list. I followed the advice in /usr/share/cwdaemon/README and found parport0, parport_pc, and parport loaded (and the lp module not). I checked Synaptic to make sure netcat was installed (it is), and tried (in /usr/share/cwdaemon) ./cwtest.sh. Got Press (CTRL-C) to interrupt... and then hear and see nothing. As for Sound device, in /etc/default/cwdaemon, I've tried (c)onsole, (s)oundcard, and (b)oth, and hear nothing from the computer when either cwtest is run as above (last year, at least, I was hearing Paris Paris from somewhere inside the desktop) or when the F keys are used with Xlog and its Keyer running. At some point I'll connect the parallel-port adapter I bought from another TenTec CW man (I know; the transistor switch is simple to build, and I bought the parts, but this was a lot easier) and, I hope, actually use the keyboard and contest modes Xlog offers. Sorry to be persistent about this, but it doesn't seem as if it should be this hard! (Obviously I can't use CQRLog either [it also uses cwdaemon], which I'm not using but have been playing with a little.) Maybe my tale of woe will be of some use to somebody. --John K3GHH ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
[Xlog-discussion] Cwdaemon... still trying...
In September 2013 some in the group offered help but I never could get cwdaemon working. Trying again, with: Kubuntu Trusty (14.04) Xlog 2.0.11 Cwdaemon 0.9.5-1.1 Although /etc/default/cwdaemon shows START_CWDAEMON=yes, on this morning's boot-up ps -A did not show it running. Simply typing cwdaemon at the user prompt brought the warning that it had to be run as root, and sudo cwdaemon added it to the ps -A list. I followed the advice in /usr/share/cwdaemon/README and found parport0, parport_pc, and parport loaded (and the lp module not). I checked Synaptic to make sure netcat was installed (it is), and tried (in /usr/share/cwdaemon) ./cwtest.sh. Got Press (CTRL-C) to interrupt... and then hear and see nothing. As for Sound device, in /etc/default/cwdaemon, I've tried (c)onsole, (s)oundcard, and (b)oth, and hear nothing from the computer when either cwtest is run as above (last year, at least, I was hearing Paris Paris from somewhere inside the desktop) or when the F keys are used with Xlog and its Keyer running. At some point I'll connect the parallel-port adapter I bought from another TenTec CW man (I know; the transistor switch is simple to build, and I bought the parts, but this was a lot easier) and, I hope, actually use the keyboard and contest modes Xlog offers. Sorry to be persistent about this, but it doesn't seem as if it should be this hard! (Obviously I can't use CQRLog either [it also uses cwdaemon], which I'm not using but have been playing with a little.) Maybe my tale of woe will be of some use to somebody. --John K3GHH ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] Cwdaemon... still trying...
OK --- sorry, I forgot to compile cwtest using gcc. After doing so, /usr/share/cwdaemon ./cwtest gives the same output I got last year: nothing heard until switch to soundcard, then Paris Paris etc. Some progress! Even trying to solicit help from the group helped! --John K3GHH ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
[Xlog-discussion] Cabrillo
My Xlog 2.0.3 Cabrillo export begins with Start-of-log: 2.0, yet here's a bit from the recent Ohio QSO Party's rules: *START-OF-LOG:* /version-number/ Must be the first line of the log submission. The current /version-number/ is 3.0. The ARRL and CQ require 3.x and as such so does OhQP. Does 2.0.5 use Cabrillo 3.0? I don't have 2.0.5 here, but didn't see an update listed in the Changelog. -- John K3GHH From the heart of the Adirondacks N 43d55m, W 74d12m ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
[Xlog-discussion] Undo Sort by date?
I just entered a few QSOs from a few days ago (info had been scrawled in a notebook), after a few current QSOs, and chose sort by date. There doesn't seem to be a way to undo this, and revert to the sort-by-number default. Can anyone help? On this old laptop, I'm using 2.0.3. -- John K3GHH From the heart of the Adirondacks N 43d55m, W 74d12m ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] Can't start 2.0.3
On 01/01/2012 08:53 AM, John B. Egger wrote: New problem with with new year... Clicking the Xlog desktop icon gets it to bounce for a while, then nothing. Console xlog gives Segmentation fault. Following a suggestion from Google, I tried gdb: (gdb) run xlog Starting program: /usr/bin/xlog xlog [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] ** (xlog:2457): WARNING **: Can not open log xlog But xlog then starts, with the QSO pane but a warning that there was a problem loading one of my logs. If I simply use Open and select my new Log2012 it pops right up, as does (when I Open it) Log2011. I've entered test data into them both and saved them, then quit and restarted Xlog. No fix --- they're accessible only from gdb with each log opened individually. (Hamlib polling and ctrl-K work fine.) Any suggestions? All I did last night was create a new log (Log2012) and use adif to move about 5 QSOs from Log2011 to Log2012. This morning I did note that Log2012 was owned by root, not john. I changed that... didn't fix the problem. Also uninstalled xlog 2.0.5 and installed 2.0.3 on this Kubuntu 10.10 system. [Oh... I also installed Google-earth...] I now have a functioning 2.0.3 running. It seems that when the three logs that I watch are loaded alphabetically, it's OK... but when they're loaded by time of last modification I get the seg fault. Guess I'll stick with 2.0.3 for a while before reinstalling 2.0.5. It's been a little scary not to be able to open my logs :( -- ---John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] Ubuntu 11.10 problem
On 12/31/2011 08:19 PM, Martin Ewing wrote: Hi, Running 32 bit Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric), xlog does not show the remarks field properly. (See below.) It looks like the text window has collapsed into a single pixel -- or something. Is this a known bug? Any fix? I am running xlog 2.0.5 Problem image at http://aa6e.net/wiki/File:Xlog_problem.png 73 Happy New Year to all! Martin AA6E -- Martin Ewing Branford, Connecticut martin.s.ew...@gmail.com mailto:martin.s.ew...@gmail.com ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion Martin, see my post of 12/15/11. My problem with Oneiric (and 2.0.5) may be related to yours. Don't have the .png at hand because my backup HD failed but I'll get it the next time I'm running Oneiric. -- ---John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] xlog-2.0.5 released
On 02/28/2011 08:56 PM, Ed wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:51:41 -0500 John B. Egger john_eg...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/23/2011 03:02 PM, Joop Stakenborg wrote: Hi people, I have squashed most of the bugs which where reported on the savannah project page. This release also adds patches from Gentoo and Ubuntu. Download from http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xlog http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xlog/ (you may need to wait for your mirror to catch up). Any suggestions for installing 2.0.5 on a Kubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) system? Just build it from source. Ed W3NR ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion Sorry; I should have been more specific. I'm running into a problem with configure failing because glib-2.0 is not available. I have a file gir1.0-glib-2.0 installed and can't find a plain glib-2.0 in the Debian repositories. -- ---John Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat, KDE 4.5.1 ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] xlog-2.0.4 released
On 10/28/2010 02:53 PM, Joop Stakenborg wrote: It's been a while, here is a bugfix release for the 2.0 series: * Upgrade to gettext-0.18.1. * 2 patches by Tom, DL1JBE for buffer overruns on logfile import and reading much bigger cty.dat files. * Fix some compilation warnings with gcc-4.4.5. * Correct the callsign lookup URL for qrz.com. * cty.dat updated to 20101025. Download at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xlog/ Regards, Thanks, Joop! I'm looking forward to installing it. ---John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Kubuntu Maverick Meerkat, KDE 4.5.1 ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] Help with Cabrillo?
John B. Egger wrote: Ed wrote: John B. Egger wrote: This is the first time I've used a logging program to generate a Cabrillo-format log, and I could use some help. (I've filed Cabrillo logs before, creating them manually using spreadsheet programs... believe me, automatic generation is better!) In the ARRL-DX-CW contest I simply used my everyday log, entering the other station's power in one of my RST columns; the other RST column was populated from my transceiver with numbers that have no meaning that I can determine (the 53's below). When I exported to Cabrillo and opened the Cabrillo file in a text editor, I got entries like these first five. The sample Cabrillo log has mode (CW) between frequency (7000 here) and date, columns for the two standard 599's, and maybe something else... How can I fix this (346 QSOs), and how should I have set up Xlog before the contest? According to the Cabrillo output you worked all 346 Q's on 7.000 ?? Ed W3NR Well, the first five were on 40m, and that's all I included here! I don't know why the precise frequency wasn't exported; other QSOs show 3500, 14000, and 21000. Here is a snapshot of my Xlog page, showing (at the bottom) the five QSOs included in the original post. [IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/35cidj8.jpg[/IMG] Success... after a fair amount of Replace using the text editor... Here are what the first five QSOs look like in the log accepted by the robot. Thanks for working with me on this, Ed! -- John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit-Linux-0.2-RC3 Bronze QSO: 7000 CW 2010-02-20 0009 DK3KD 599 1000 K3GHH 599 MD QSO: 7000 CW 2010-02-20 0011 E77XZ 599 1000 K3GHH 599 MD QSO: 7000 CW 2010-02-20 0013 C6APG 599 250 K3GHH 599 MD QSO: 7000 CW 2010-02-20 0014 TM6M 599 1000 K3GHH 599 MD QSO: 7000 CW 2010-02-20 0015 UX4U 599 1000 K3GHH 599 MD ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] Hamlib error in 1.9
Joop Stakenborg wrote: Op woensdag 04-02-2009 om 21:41 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef John B. Egger: Perhaps this isn't the place for this question but all I could find in sourceforge/hamlib was a developers' forum and I'm a long way from being a developer. Hi John, judging from the output it is not a xlog problem, I see at least 2 errors. The hamlib-devel mailing list is a good starting point for fixing this. xlog tries to retrieve mode, power level (if you have the field enabled), frequency, ptt and your s-meter value. This is done by polling the rig every x millisecond if you have polling enabled. You might want to make this time a little longer to see if this helps. You should make yourself familiar with the rigctl binary. It is in the ultimate tool for debugging hamlib. It is available in the hamlib-utils package. People on the hamlib-devel can tell you if the orion II is fully supported. Regards, Joop PG4I Joop, Thanks for your advice. Sorry for the delay in responding, but it's taken me a while to solve the issue. In the hamlib help forum, Martin (AA6E) suggested the latest CVS build of hamlib. When I downloaded and compiled it, the hamlib problem with Xlog 1.9 was solved. The country maps are terrific. Of course now you have 2.0 out, so I'm still a step behind... ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] Hamlib error in 1.9
John B. Egger wrote: I just installed 1.9 and after its initial frequency reading get a There was an error communicating with your rig, hamlib has stopped. I'm using an Orion II. Running rigctl -r /dev/ttyS1 -m 1608 and entering f gives the correct frequence, m the correct mode and passband. I installed Xlog 1.9 using Synaptic, from the Debian sid repository. I can hunt down the gtk version, etc., if needed. Perhaps this isn't the place for this question but all I could find in sourceforge/hamlib was a developers' forum and I'm a long way from being a developer. PS: This is hamlib.out: rig:rig_init called rig:rig_open called TX 3 bytes 3f 56 0d?V. RX 15 characters 56 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 20 32 2e 30 33 39 64 2dTX 3 bytes 3f 53 0d?S. RX 4 characters 35 36 36 0d566. ** retry after delay (io=12, retry=0) ** RX 12 characters 40 53 52 4d 30 36 39 53 30 33 32 0d@SRM069S032. TX 3 bytes 3f 53 0d?S. RX 12 characters 40 53 52 4d 30 36 39 53 30 33 32 0d@SRM069S032. tt565_get_level: unsupported level 1073741824 rig:rig_close called rig:rig_cleanup called I hope that is helpful... -- John Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit-Linux-0.2-RC3 ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] xlog-1.8.1 released
Joop Stakenborg wrote: This fixes the use of the ctrl+k key and fixes the use of defaults. Yes, it does! Thanks again, Joop! A minor thing with my setup: Neither Help/Manual nor Ctrl-H brings up the manual. I have to open my file manager, scroll to /data/doc/manual, and open the .html page from there. (In the Keyer chapter, node 21, you want Search Pounce, not Search Pound :) . Maybe that's what guys with big beams and the legal limit do!) -- --John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] xlog-1.8.1 released
Joop Stakenborg wrote: A minor thing with my setup: Neither Help/Manual nor Ctrl-H brings up the manual. I have to open my file manager, scroll to /data/doc/manual, and open the .html page from there. (In the Keyer chapter, node 21, you want Search Pounce, not Search Pound :) . Maybe that's what guys with big beams and the legal limit do!) Okay, Search and Pounce noted for the next release... In order to bring up the manual, install the xdg-utils package and make sure html files are associated with your web-browser. Xlog uses xdg-open from the xdg-utils package. To test it run xdg-open data/doc/manual/index.html from the xlog source tree. Regards, Joop PG4I Got it! Thanks... -- --John Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] deleting a log
Dennis Ledford wrote: I created a log name and want to remove it. How do I delete a log? Thanks, Den ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion Open your file manager, find your logs, and delete that .xlog file... or rename it with a different extension, if you're not really *sure* you want to delete it! The next time you open Xlog, it won't be there. --John K3GHH ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
[Xlog-discussion] Hamlib in 1.8: No QSO-pane data
I just updated Xlog 1.7 to 1.8. Hamlib provides a frequency readout in my statusbar, as I requested, but Ctrl-K adds no information from the transceiver to the QSO pane (only the date and time). I'm using the same parameters (selection of radio and device) as in 1.7 (which I still have installed on a laptop, so comparisons are easy). The ChangeLog didn't seem to show anything related to this. Anyone else experiencing this, or have I misconfigured 1.8 somehow? I compiled it from the .tar.gz file, since I use a Debian (Kubuntu-based) system. Everything looks fine, except that Ctrl-K doesn't pull in the data. -- --John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-9RC1-G ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
Re: [Xlog-discussion] New log
Joop Stakenborg wrote: Op vrijdag 25-01-2008 om 23:03 uur [tijdzone +], schreef John B. Egger: I'm trying to create a new log, Log2008, and insert into it the 30 or so QSOs I've made in calendar 2008 but entered in Log2007. What's the best way to do this? Is there a way to copy only selected QSOs from one log to another? Hi John, Copy log2007.xlog to log2008.xlog then grab a text editor and delete all of the QSO's you don't want. That's how I would do it. Just make sure the header stays intact. I merged Log2008 and Log2007, but can't figure out how to delete all of the QSOs that took place in 2007. I tried ADIF export (of only the 2008 QSOs) but the import into Log2008 didn't get all of my fields. Regards, Joop PG4I Terrific, Joop! That did it. Thanks! --John K3GHH Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-8 (beta) ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
[Xlog-discussion] New log
I'm trying to create a new log, Log2008, and insert into it the 30 or so QSOs I've made in calendar 2008 but entered in Log2007. What's the best way to do this? Is there a way to copy only selected QSOs from one log to another? I merged Log2008 and Log2007, but can't figure out how to delete all of the QSOs that took place in 2007. I tried ADIF export (of only the 2008 QSOs) but the import into Log2008 didn't get all of my fields. -- --John Registered Linux User #291592 Klikit Linux 0.1-8 (beta) ___ Xlog-discussion mailing list Xlog-discussion@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xlog-discussion
