Re: [Tlf-devel] Serial number exchange in tlf

[Heiko Voigt]

Hi Ervin,

thanks for the quick response. I was not able to respond that quickly.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:13:33PM +0200, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:26:45PM +0200, hvoigt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there a way to automatically fill in the serial number in the
> > exchange field?
> 
> based on your e-mail, my question is: which exchange field did
> you mean?

I meant the field that is activated after filling out the callsign. But
maybe it was just me being confused since other softwares (UCX Log) fill
in the number only after you entered the callsign. But as you explained
below its the number before the callsign.

> > Or is the field in front of the callsign supposed to be
> > that field?
> 
> that's _your_ exchange, which you (need) to send.
> 
> The "received" exchange field is right to the callsign field.

Thanks for the explanation. As described above I was confused by the
order of those fields.

> Tlf fills it automatically in some cases (eg. CQWW, other contest
> where the exchange is some zone), but you can make an
> initial_exchange list, which you can pass to Tlf. If Tlf found a
> callsign in that list, then fills the exchange field, eg. DARC
> XMAS, DARC Easter-egg, ARRL-DX, IARU HF champ, and so many
> others.

Thanks, I am looking into using TLF for the DARC CW-Region1-Fieldday.
The Website says TLF is usable for that but I could not find a rules
file for it, so I am currently crafting my own. Would you be interested
in a pull-request for that or did I just not find it?

> > In that case what should the effect of LONG_SERIAL and
> > SHORT_SERIAL be? It seems that it does not have any effect.
> 
> SHORT_SERIAL will send the shortest form of numbers, eg. 9 -> N,
> 0 -> T, ...

Ah ok that is only for sending. I was assuming it would be for the
display. E.g. 001 instead of 0001 before the callsign field.

Thanks for the clarifications,

73 and cheers Heiko (DH3IKO)