Menus & Controls

The menu heirarchy is:
  • Op Mode - the current operating mode will show as a highlighted menu item.
    • CW - configurable from the CW configuration tab
    • DominoEX
      • dominoex 4
      • dominoex 5
      • dominoex 8
      • dominoex 11 - the default calling mode for dominoEX
      • dominoex 16
      • dominoex 22
    • Feld
      • Feld-Hell
      • FSK-Hell (also called FM-Hell by some programs)
      • FSK-Hell105
    • MFSK
      • mfsk 8
      • mfsk 16
    • PSK
      • psk 31 - phase shift keying - 31.625 baud
      • qpsk 31 - quadrature phase shift keying - 31.25 baud
      • psk 63 - phase shift keying - 63.25 baud
      • qpsk 63 - quadrature phase shift keying - 63.25 baud
      • psk 125 - phase shift keying - 126.5 baud
      • qpsk 125 - quadrature phase shift keying - 126.5 baud
      • psk 250 - phase shift keying - 253 baud
      • qpsk 250 - phase shift keying - 253 baud
    • Olivia - tone & bandwidth controlled under configuration tab
    • RTTY - baud / shift / BAUDOT / ASCII / stopbit all configurable on RTTY configuration tab
    • Throb
      • Throb1
      • Throb2
      • Throb4
      • ThrobX-1
      • ThrobX-2
      • ThrobX-4
    • WWV - special receive only modem used for calibrating sound card
    • Freq Anal - used for carrier detection and frequency measurement
  • Configure
    • Defaults
      • Fonts - select the font for the receive text viewer & transmit text editor
      • Operator - open the operator configuration tab
      • Waterfall - open the waterfall configuration tab
      • Video - open the video ID, video TEXT, CW Identifier tab
      • Rig Ctrl - open the rig control configuration tab
      • QRZ - open the QRZ access configuration tab
      • Sound Card - open the sound card configuration tab
      • Misc - open the miscellaneous configuration tab (sweet spot definitions)
    • Modems - open the current modem configuration tab or the last one accessed
    • Save Config - write the current configuration to the file ~/.fldigi/fldigi.def
  • Rig - menu item available for hamlib or rigcat i/o.  Opens up a dialog for controlling the transceiver parameters.
  • Help
    • About - current version number displayed
  • Wav
    • Rx Capture - allows capturing the incoming audio to a wav file
    • Tx Generate - allows capturing the generated tx audio to a wav file
    • Playback - playback a previously captured or generated wav file
  • Tune - activates the PTT and injects a tone at the current waterfall cursor frequency.  The tone level will be at the maximum signal level for any modem.  Adjust your transmitter accordingly.  Close the Tune dialog box when tuning is concluded.

Qso data


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if you are not using hamlib or memmap rig control
  • Freq: - filled in by the program.  If hamlib interface is working with your rig then the frequency will be the reported carrier frequency of the transceiver plus (usb) or minus (lsb) the audio carrier for the current modem.  If the hamlib interface is not enabled then this will be in KHz and decimal units.
  • Time: user modifiable field.  Use the small button to the right of the entry field to fill in the current GMT.  This is the QSO start time that will also be sent to the logging program.
  • Call: the callsign of the station being worked.
  • Name: the name of the operator being worked.
  • Rst(r): received RST (or RSQ)
  • Rst(s): sent RST
  • Qth: QTH of the station being worked
  • Loc: Grid Square location of station being worked
  • Notes: free form entry ... relates to the NOTES fields of Xlog and/or fl_logbook.
If you are not using a Hamlib or memmap rig control interface
  • The Band specifier combo box can be filled in manually or selected from the pull down list.
    • The pull down box will be filled with the program defaults or from the frequencies.def file that the user creates and stores in the $HOME/.fldigi directory.
Clear button - clears the QSO fields and resets the time field to the current GMT.
Save button - sends the QSO info the Xlog compatible logging programs.  This includes the authors logging program fl_logbook.  The QSO end time will be filled in as the GMT when the Save button was pressed.
QRZ button - executes a query to either a local QRZ cdrom or the www.QRZ.com web site.  If available data is filled in for the Name, Qth, Loc and Notes fields.
Receive Text - a scrollable text viewer that shows incoming text in black and transmitted text in red.  Right clicking in the text area brings up the popup menu shown at the left.

If the cursor was pointed to the call then you can select Call for putting the data in the QSO box for Callsign.  The same for Name, Qth, Locator and RSTin.  This works on only a single word.

QRZ this call will enter the call into the correct data widget and also initiate the QRZ query.

clear will clear the entire receive text area and reset the scrollbar.  The divider will add the following line to the receive text window:

<<================>>

This can be used to separate transmit from receive or when copying several different signals and you are saving them to the log.
Transmit Text - a scrollable text editor that contains the text for transmission.  Entered text appears black on white.  As the text is transmitted it changes from black to red and is also echoed in the receive text area.  At the end of transmission (either by control macro or by the T/R button) the area is cleared of all text.

Pressing the right mouse button while the cursor is in this area brings up the popup menu shown at the left.

Clear button clears the entire transmit text box, but does not disable the PTT.
Append file button opens a file selection dialog.  You can select a file to transmit.  This file should be a plain text file.  The file contents are not expanded as a macro definition.
Transmit  - immediately enables the PTT
Send image - used only in MFSK-16 mode, this starts the image transfer process.
Paste - paste the contents of the system cut & paste buffer into the text at the current cursor position.
Receive - inserts the macro ^r end of text at the end of the transmit string.  When the transmit point moves to this two-key combination it will disable the PTT and return fldigi to the receive mode.

Macros



Each button has been defined by the "macros.mdf" file that was read at program start or by menu selection.  Click a button or press its function key (CQ = f1 in the above example) while the cursor is in the Transmit Text box and the contents of that macro will be expanded and added to the transmit text string.

The "Alt" button displays the alternate macro set, 20 macros in all.  Macros can be edited from within fldigi.