[Elecraft] Field day and Fldigi

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2014 24 Apr 13:56 -0500, Kenneth A Christiansen wrote:
> Hi to the group
> 
> It is raining in North Dakota so I am spending a day in the shack and
> installed FLDIGI on my Windows lap top. I want to use it for Field Day
> and some contests. Under CONFIG/RIG CONTROL/RIG/HAMLIB I was able to
> choose K3/KX3 and the program seems to do everything I would want to
> participate in a contest as long as I use RTTY or PSK31. I next looked
> at doing CW and have a big problem. I can program <RIGCAT:["ky TEST
> ;"]\ret> on an F KEY but using Hamlib this will not get passed on to
> the KX3. If I set up RIGCAT I can send the text to the KX3 with the F
> KEY but than the Fldigi FREQUENCY feature does not work. I am looking
> for a way to set up FLDIGI to have both the FREQUENCY feature and be
> able to use an F KEY to send "ky TEST;" to the KX3 using the CW mode.

Hi Ken.

I'll admit that I've not looked into supporting Morse sending via the
CAT interface.  I will have to take a look at that.  In the mean time,
please take up the frequency issue with RigCAT to the Fldigi (linuxham)
Yahoo group as it may be a bug that needs fixed.

73, Nate N0NB >>

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