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Edward A. Dauer

fldigi for Mac / K3 / KX3 / K2

Fumbling with the Aether logging program during the recent CQ WW WPX (CW)
convinced me that I need to bite the bullet and get a program that will do
rig control as well as logging. Posts on this reflector suggest that
fldigi is widely used, and it does seem to be usable with a Mac OS. So I
downloaded the Users Manual. It comprises 428 pages of dense computer
jargon, including a TOC of 18 pages, beginning with instructions about
configuring a sound card. Two questions. First, I operate 100% CW and I
don¹t care at all for machine decoding of CW received though I do want the
program to key my transmissions using info from the keyboard log entry -
call signs, automatic S/N update, other exchange, etc.. Do I even need a
sound card to use the fldigi program? Second, is there a Cliff¹s Notes
version of the operating guide accessible by computer-speak tyros? Tnx,

Ted, KN1CBR

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M0XDF

Re: fldigi for Mac / K3 / KX3 / K2

Take a look at MacLoggerDX, you do have to pay for it, but a number of us MacHams think it's well worth it (https://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX.html).

Also there is RUMLog, which was free (http://www.dl2rum.de/rumsoft/RUMLog.html).

> On 3 Jun 2016, at 17:20, Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Fumbling with the Aether logging program during the recent CQ WW WPX (CW)
> convinced me that I need to bite the bullet and get a program that will do
> rig control as well as logging. Posts on this reflector suggest that
> fldigi is widely used, and it does seem to be usable with a Mac OS. So I
> downloaded the Users Manual. It comprises 428 pages of dense computer
> jargon, including a TOC of 18 pages, beginning with instructions about
> configuring a sound card. Two questions. First, I operate 100% CW and I
> don¹t care at all for machine decoding of CW received though I do want the
> program to key my transmissions using info from the keyboard log entry -
> call signs, automatic S/N update, other exchange, etc.. Do I even need a
> sound card to use the fldigi program? Second, is there a Cliff¹s Notes
> version of the operating guide accessible by computer-speak tyros? Tnx,
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
>
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Edward A. Dauer

Re: fldigi for Mac / K3 / KX3 / K2

Thanks David ( and thanks to others who replied offline, including VE3KI, N1HO, NF4L, and others who will have replied by the time I send this.)

I had tried both RUMLog and MacLogger in the past and, for reasons I can't now remember, I dropped them. It may be that back then I was looking just for manual logging rather than logging plus basic rig control (for one of them, I recall, I had to create a "phantom" transceiver to fool the program into thinking I actually had a rig connected to the computer.)

Based on the advice I've gotten here, I will go back and look at each. As someone just said, for what I need fldigi is "way overkill." Good. It will not pain me to erase a 428 page user's manual that I won't be reading. At least not now. Maybe someday . . .

Thanks again, all . . .

Ted, KN1CBR

Edward A. Dauer, LL.B. M.P.H.
Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law
University of Denver

From: "<David Ferrington>", M0XDF <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>>
Date: Friday, June 3, 2016 at 10:45 AM
To: Edward Dauer <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>>
Cc: "[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>" <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] fldigi for Mac / K3 / KX3 / K2

Take a look at MacLoggerDX, you do have to pay for it, but a number of us MacHams think it's well worth it (https://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX.html).

Also there is RUMLog, which was free (http://www.dl2rum.de/rumsoft/RUMLog.html).

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Bob Nielsen-4

Re: fldigi for Mac / K3 / KX3 / K2

In reply to this post by M0XDF

I only use fldigi for digital modes. For CW or SSB I have MacLoggerDX
and think it is pretty good, but I prefer to use RUMlogNG (free). It
also has a contest mode which supports most of the popular contests (new
ones are added frequently).

http://dl2rum.de/rumsoft/RUMLog.html

Bob, N7XY

On 6/3/16 9:45 AM, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:

> Take a look at MacLoggerDX, you do have to pay for it, but a number of us MacHams think it's well worth it (https://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX.html).
>
> Also there is RUMLog, which was free (http://www.dl2rum.de/rumsoft/RUMLog.html).
>
>
>> On 3 Jun 2016, at 17:20, Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Fumbling with the Aether logging program during the recent CQ WW WPX (CW)
>> convinced me that I need to bite the bullet and get a program that will do
>> rig control as well as logging. Posts on this reflector suggest that
>> fldigi is widely used, and it does seem to be usable with a Mac OS. So I
>> downloaded the Users Manual. It comprises 428 pages of dense computer
>> jargon, including a TOC of 18 pages, beginning with instructions about
>> configuring a sound card. Two questions. First, I operate 100% CW and I
>> don¹t care at all for machine decoding of CW received though I do want the
>> program to key my transmissions using info from the keyboard log entry -
>> call signs, automatic S/N update, other exchange, etc.. Do I even need a
>> sound card to use the fldigi program? Second, is there a Cliff¹s Notes
>> version of the operating guide accessible by computer-speak tyros? Tnx,
>>
>> Ted, KN1CBR
>>
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Tim Seed

Re: fldigi for Mac / K3 / KX3 / K2

In reply to this post by Edward A. Dauer

RumLogNG - gets my vote. Simple excellent software.

73s de Tim/A45WG

> On 3 Jun 2016, at 20:20, Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Fumbling with the Aether logging program during the recent CQ WW WPX (CW)
> convinced me that I need to bite the bullet and get a program that will do
> rig control as well as logging. Posts on this reflector suggest that
> fldigi is widely used, and it does seem to be usable with a Mac OS. So I
> downloaded the Users Manual. It comprises 428 pages of dense computer
> jargon, including a TOC of 18 pages, beginning with instructions about
> configuring a sound card. Two questions. First, I operate 100% CW and I
> don¹t care at all for machine decoding of CW received though I do want the
> program to key my transmissions using info from the keyboard log entry -
> call signs, automatic S/N update, other exchange, etc.. Do I even need a
> sound card to use the fldigi program? Second, is there a Cliff¹s Notes
> version of the operating guide accessible by computer-speak tyros? Tnx,
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
>
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