Mike, I was part of this testing also. I'll see if I can expand on the subject. What we were doing is testing flarq operation in a digital net situation. We had noticed that flarq Plain Talk transmitted OK without being connected. The rest of the group could watch what was going on via the fldigi window. At one point, while two of us were connected with flarq, two more of us connected to each other. All four us were in a connected state, but as two separate connections. We then discovered that the flarq Plain Talk messages from both connections were seen on both connections. We then began to see the advantages of having flarq working so everyone listening could see the Plain Text messages in flarq. In running a net, some folks would have a difficulty reading Plain Talk text on fldigi. From a training perspective, we think being able to have the entire net running flarq and handling most non-traffic interaction via Plain Talk would be easier than a mix of fldigi keyboard-to-keyboard and flarq.
With unconnected Plain Talk (or in our case, multiple connections), it became difficult to figure out who was sending text lines easily. You had to watch the fldigi window while you were reading the cleaner looking text lines on flarq. What we are asking for is Plain Talk operation both connected and unconnected with a call sign as the front of the line such as "<N0GW>". We realize this was not the original intent of flarq but in testing we think that with a very small change it could serve us very well for our tactical emergency messaging net operation. I hope I made that detailed enough to know what we are shooting for. Oh yes, we did try the fldigi/wrap operation and would use that for bulleting type stuff but for message passing, flarq gets stuff through under rougher QRN conditions. Dave, We did come across an a probable bug in flarq. It appears that with flarq 4.3AB, received email messages are dropped in the bit bucket. Flarq says they are received OK but a complete search of the machine for any new files of any type did not turn up received emails. Gary - N0GW ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <counsil at rollanet.org>; <fldigi-alpha at lists.berlios.de> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Flarq Plain Talk, E-mail Items So if I understand correctly, what you are asking is for FLARQ to function in an Instant Messenger/Chat mode for roundtables giving you the funtions mentioned. Interesting idea. FLARQ, I think, was envisioned being used to provide reliable copy point to point using ARQ and it works very nicely too. It is interesting you have used the plain talk function in that way and does open up some ideas for the future. Or perhaps a separate program altogether. 73's Mike -----Original Message----- From: "Joseph A. Counsil" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:08:56 To: <fldigi-alpha at lists.berlios.de> Subject: Flarq Plain Talk, E-mail Items Dave, Several of us just ran a loose "net" using Flarq, and found that during a roundtable it was very confusing using the plain-talk. It would be good if each line in the plain talk window were preceded with the sender's callsign, something like <K0OG> to identify the sender. As a temporary help, I copied "<K0OG>" and would just Ctrl-V to paste it prior to each line I would type. Also, I received an e-mail message but it did not show up in the NBEMS.files, nor any other directory structure I could find. We are still working on trying to figure that out - maybe I have something set up incorrectly? It would be nice to have a menu item or button in Flarq to open the received e-mail and received-files directories. I'm running AX, Windows XP Pro SP3. Several of us in Missouri and possibly in Kansas will try some things again at 2:00 PM, 3.585 MHz if anyone would like to drop in. 73, -Joe- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Joseph A. Counsil counsil at rollanet.org Phone:(573) 341-5186 | | 1310 Woodlawn Drive, Rolla, MO 65401 Amateur Radio: - K?OG - | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ fldigi-alpha mailing list fldigi-alpha at lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha _______________________________________________ fldigi-alpha mailing list fldigi-alpha at lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fldigi-alpha
