Richard,

I sure it was a request by a ham operator some time ago before I took over coding FLAMP. I have made changes to the "Events" over the years making it a little more dynamic. Like many things in life, it's better to have it and not need it then needing it and not having it, or so goes the theory. I can see a use for it, (Example) a daily at 1200 noon broadcast of a specific series of messages.

Robert

Could this be useful for daily path-specific propagation probing?

Send messages 3x or 4x daily to a station, or a short list of stations.

Do so on several bands.

An app at the receiving station(s) then evaluates the time-to-complete an

accurate transfer and responds with a report of the best-band to use at the

moment.

The next level might be to automate mutual band-switching so as to maintain

2-way connectivity for emcomm, etc.

QUESTION: How would the system check for a busy frequency - if the transmissions

are automated? (And, could it automatically seek a not-busy alternative frequency?

I'm guessing it might have to wait for a break in activity to signal the receiving

station(s) to also change frequency. This is starting to sound like ALE ...)

Thanks,

KD4E

I used it extensively for beaconing a position and nmea/gpx file, plus a through windscreen image when I was driving about in remote VK. I used a changing script with file aging plus the events feature. (ie each file was sent 6 times, as 3, 2, 1 as 15 min events)

Easier to do with flamp-shell now though.

Busy frequency? Use PSM (that is part of fldigi) It delays TX until the channel is clear.

Cheers Bob VK2YQA

On 29/12/24 06:34, DavidC KD4E via groups.io wrote:

Could this be useful for daily path-specific propagation probing?

Send messages 3x or 4x daily to a station, or a short list of stations.

Do so on several bands.

An app at the receiving station(s) then evaluates the time-to-complete an

accurate transfer and responds with a report of the best-band to use at the

moment.

The next level might be to automate mutual band-switching so as to maintain

2-way connectivity for emcomm, etc.

QUESTION: How would the system check for a busy frequency - if the transmissions

are automated? (And, could it automatically seek a not-busy alternative frequency?

I'm guessing it might have to wait for a break in activity to signal the receiving

station(s) to also change frequency. This is starting to sound like ALE ...)

Thanks,

KD4E