flnet 7.3.3.07 posted at
http://www.w1hkj.com/alpha/flnet/
Sat Dec 26 18:26:00 2020
-0500 alpha 7.3.3.07 Remove country, locator, azimuth and distance from comment fields. COUNTRY and LOCATOR are now a part of the database. Azimuth and distance are computed values. Changing arc measurement to kilometers or nautical miles should be reflected immediately in any displayed values. You do not need to do anything with current flnet csv files. The update is compatible with pre 7.3.3.07 files. It is always a good idea to back up before testing. 73, David, W1HKJ
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flnet 7.3.3.06 posted
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flnet 7.3.3.05 posted
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http://www.w1hkj.com/alpha/flnet/
Fri Dec 25 13:42:00 2020 -0500 alpha 7.3.3.05 UI fixes * change all configuration items to progStatus * increase width of check-ins display lines * adjust UI widgets, position and size * change arrangement of fields in info panel - concatenate comment1, comment2 data fields separating each with a semicolon. * add user configurable justification, left/right for nickname field in check-in list autofiles mkappbundle * modify 'version' to include VERSION_PATCH Keyboard Shortcuts * Remove &menu items * Enable alt-F4 - cleanExit * on MacOS/OS-X enable cmd-Q - cleanExit Version 7.3.3 Send test reports direct to w1hkj at bellsouth dot net
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flnet alpha version 7.3.3.03 posted
at
http://www.w1hkj.com/alpha/flnet/
Thu Dec 24 18:26:00 2020 -0500
alpha 7.3.3.03 Existing database files in
flnet.files are compatible with this update. You will have to
reconfigure the application. Strongly suggest you create a
backup of the entire contents of flnet.files before installing
and running this alpha version. All configuration items are now in a single file FLNET.prefs: ; FLTK preferences file format
1.0 73, David, W1HKJ
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Re: File Notifications
#file-notice
Mike
Very nice. Lots of hard work there!
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On 12/22/2020 11:18, nbems@groups.io Notification wrote:
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nbems@groups.io Notification <noreply@...>
The following files have been deleted from the Files area of the nbems@groups.io group.
By: Ole Helgerson KI7MBR The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the nbems@groups.io group. By: Ole Helgerson KI7MBR
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Help with ICOM7100 Configuration for FLDIGI and FLMSG
My FLMSG does not seem to connect at all to my FLDIGI. I am using ICOM7100. Can somebody provide screenshots of the configuration settings please? Or, email me directly... I thank you in advance! -Jojo KN6HTD
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
n6medjim@...
Unless it has happened recently, so far as I am aware Red Cross Disaster Services Technology (DST) doesn't deploy flmsg to its disaster laptops. Here in NorCal in the Gold Country Region we have deployed flmsg and the handful of Red Cross Custom HTML forms on flash drives, distributed to our disaster response trailers and to our Disaster Program Managers (DPMs). (fldigi and its suite of sibling utilities can be run from a flash drive.)
Some history for those unaware of the Red Cross Custom HTML forms, we developed and deployed them here in our region a couple of years ago for Routine, Priority, and Urgent disaster message traffic that require precision or exceed 25 words. Intent is for the message originator to keyboard the message and hand off the flmsg .k2s object file to a radio operator for transmission to the far end. The whole intent is to prevent transcription error between the originator, radio operators, and addressee. The number of Red Cross forms was deliberate, limited to those for message traffic that HAD to get through regardless the state of the public telecomm network. All other traffic could wait for telecom service restoration or that could be sent via sneaker or chevy net. Dave Freese helped the effort by constructing a "simple" or "agency" interface for flmsg. Because of his efforts, training to use flmsg is minimal as the flmsg user has only three options: New Message, Edit Message, and View Message. The message form opens into the familiar environment of a browser, reducing the complaints of users to learn "yet another program". Everyone be safe and be well Jim / RN / N6MED
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Re: AndFlmsg: BTECH $20 APRS cable; success / FRS, GMRS possibility?
Gordon Gibby
Excellent discussion.
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On Dec 18, 2020, at 06:57, C Matthew Curtin via groups.io <kd8tte=protonmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: AndFlmsg: BTECH $20 APRS cable; success / FRS, GMRS possibility?
C Matthew Curtin
On Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 at 3:49 PM, KB3YCK <kb3yck@gmail.com> wrote:
NET: FRS/GMRS radios can provide a reasonable voice exchange with an equivalent radio, but I think the use case for messaging might be a stretch given the various limitations.Agreed. In Franklin County Ohio, CERT has organized such that FRS is used for intrateam communication. Members are typically close enough to see each other but can be far enough away that the radio is useful. One or two members of the team will also have a second radio on a "site" net that ties the teams together with the ICP. The ICP will be on both the site net and an intersite net with any other sites' ICPs and area command (typically the EOC). The EOC (technically, an adjacent "assessment center," where all of the raw data pour in) maintains tactical communication to ICPs local/VHF and other EOCs both VHF and HF, and has another station for record traffic both local/VHF and HF. There are other radio services available there as well, including the state-wide public safety trunked system, CB, and SHARES HF. We've exercised various services provided this way, including welfare traffic, e.g., messages to friends and family of persons displaced by local infrastructure-damaging disaster. The separating of nets to keep communication as local as possible also does a lot to help with the scalability of a situation. Of course this also gives us the ability to do things like establish record-traffic circuits for NBEMS to relay information from a scene to the EOC and from there to anywhere pretty rapidly. Which services are in use for each part of this will depend on the action being undertaken but FRS, amateur VHF, amateur HF, and public safety UHF trunked systems are part of the mix. While we have a large ARES and NTS presence, anything working in support of the EMA is leave-the-labels-at-home AUXCOMM. Matt KD8TTE
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
C Matthew Curtin
On Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 at 6:15 PM, Bob Dixon <w8erdbob@gmail.com> wrote:
Situation - EMA official fills out a standard form on his PC, ad places it on a shared disk.Ostensibly this matters only to the delivering station, right? Relay stations don't need to be able to interpret the message; they need only find it to relay it. Even if they don't have the form it can always be sent as a file transfer. It won't matter if it's a custom form for FLMSG that the relay stations don't have, a CSV file, or a Winlink form. I'd think that the only concerns that relay stations would have is the file size to deal with feasibility of transmission in the expected timeframe and that the transmission is lawful. Matt KD8TTE
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Bob, Once we know the actual forms the EMA is using, I can follow the suggestion from David KB3 and Dave W1HKJ to create a utility program to extract the textual values from the form suitable for flmsg. Until we know the exact forms being used we're just spinning our wheels. Have you received information about the forms EMA / EOC is using? Larry AC8YE
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:15 PM Andy_VE4PER <andrew.webb.501.ve4per@...> wrote:
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
I went through this a while back. In the end I had to copy and modify and existing html template form from the .nbems custom forms folder then save that modified form in the custom folder as a template. It is not a standard html form that one usually finds as it appears that it contains extra script code either META or whatever type the FLmsg uses to launch it in a browser to be filled out with text by the person creating the message to be sent. Then when the send or publish button in the browser is pressed there is overhead packet info added to the message (plain text) so that the receiving station FLMsg knows which specific custom form template needs to be used to display the message received. That is why both RX and TX stations have to have a copy of the
template form file in their custom directories. The html form
itself is not sent only the text throughput data and the linking
data used to select the correct template for display
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Not sure I made myself clear. We are not talking about any special forms. We are talking only about the known forms, to both the agency person and flmsg. So the ham receives a standard form in html, filled in by the official.
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Bob,
I suggest you spend some time reviewing the documents published on both my web site and Source Forge. The base folder is http://www.w1hkj.com/files/flmsg/ARC_custom_forms/
Start with the last one. That should answer your question. 73, David, W1HKJ
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Bob Dixon
Not sure I made myself clear. We are not talking about any special forms. We are talking only about the known forms, to both the agency person and flmsg. So the ham receives a standard form in html, filled in by the official.
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We need to import that standard form into the same standard form in flmsg. Or stated another way, just replace the empty flmsg form with the imported filled-in form. Bob W8ERD
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Jack Dellinger
We have been using fldigi/FLMsg for over 10 years now. I’m in York Co Pa and we have been part of EMA, especially for out 2 Nuclear Power plant annual Drills, as secondary comm all those years. EMA uses their version of an IS213. We have away had to either use Voice (way to slow) to send msg OR transcribe the msg into FLMsg to send. Sometimes EMA has someone assigned to type msg into FLMsg and we get the file. If they know it’s going via Ham they just create msg in FLMsg. It’s not the best solution but it’s much faster then voice. It just takes training. Jack
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:38 AM Bob Dixon <w8erdbob@...> wrote:
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
On Dave’s website for flmsg, there are instructions for building a custom HTM form. The setup is a bit different
from taking something else that “looks and smells” like HTML, which may actually not be 100% simple HTML. Many forms and programs that use them require imbedded Java (or other language) scripts to perform data validations, dynamically alter selection choices in a menu, and a host of other capabilities. Building a “universal translator” for the myriad of front-end tools that create HTML today would be a formidable task, not to mention the potential system resource requirements to make that work both fast and easy. So — yes you can generate custom forms, and many have tried and succeeded. However, a one-sized fits all approach isn’t practical (my view). Last point — as ARES operators, our role is to deliver a message from a served agency to wherever they need it to go. The tools we use, the methods we use, and whether we do it by voice or digital will often require a “game-day” decision. The important part is that we CAN deliver the message with the correct content to the desired destination. Voice may be the most challenging method, but you cannot rely 100% on digital methods either. Sometimes, although we have our amateur radios and computers, delivering a message might work best in-person by walking or driving it from A to B, using a landline phone or fax machine, or even a public service radio we’re handed to complete the task of delivering it. Just because we have the neat whizzy tools doesn’t always mean those are the only tools at our disposal. We do whatever we need to get the message through using whatever means we have available. Regards, David L Flad / KB3YCK Disclaimer: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is intended for the sole use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone this e-mail message including any attachments, or any information contained in this e-mail message including any attachments. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message.
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Check out the Flmsg online users manual. W1HKJ wrote a section on
how to create custom forms. There's an example on how to create a
simple HTML form document. Now you have to inspire someone in your
organization to do a little bit of HTML coding. Attached is a form
created from PDF files that someone created a while back during one
of the Flu Pandemic drills.
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73, Ron NY3J
On 12/17/20 10:38 AM, Bob Dixon wrote:
Thanks much Jack. See notes below.
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Bob Dixon
Thanks much Jack. See notes below.
Bob
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Re: Getting HTML file into flmsg
Jack Dellinger
There are two ‘easy’ methods I know about: 1. Red Cross now installs FLMsg on their computers and their folks fill in the form and save to thumb drive and send the drive to Ham operator. 2. Old way.. Ham reads the html message and transcribes to flmsg. 3. If you have the expertise you could write a program to read the HTML and it transcribes. For no 1. Red Cross has a group of custom forms it uses in FLMsg. You can create custom forms if your EMA uses their own forms. Jack KC3JD
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 6:15 PM Bob Dixon <w8erdbob@...> wrote: Situation - EMA official fills out a standard form on his PC, ad places it on a shared disk.
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