Finding Winlink stations when offgrid

[@BernardLelectricien]

Darn neat !!! Well done, chapeau !

[@WadeAbout]

Thanks Jason. I just installed this as I’m semi off grid at the moment. Found a VK map similar to that one you used. Not that it really matters here in VK as there are only 4 non pactor Hf RMS stations any way. But at least the list keeps up to date in case they move freq.

[@ronwright4061]

Hi Jason. Downloaded and run perfectly first try to my ubuntu 16.04 box. Perfect directions. This will be very useful over with my rPi portable station. It would have taken me a month or more to figure out how to do this on my own - so it would not have happened. Thanks much. Again. de w7ery

[@KM4ACK]

Glad it worked for you Ron. Some things are born out of necessity...this was one of those. Out of curiosity, did you include the script in your crontab? de KM4ACK

[@ronwright4061]

@@KM4ACK yes, but for only once per week - plenty for me. Waiting to see that work.

[@AndyKopac]

Very Nice Jason

[@AndyKopac]

Hey Jason You have been doing some great work. I have a puzzler. I'm using a moitessier hat for GPS, AIS, Attitude, Speed, Barametric pressure, temperature, and magnetic compass heading. It's pretty awesome. But I've had a H*** of a time trying to get GPSd working.It's just odd. Won't pick it up. I'm assuming that I use Pat configure and change the port settings on the GPSd.

[@KM4ACK]

Yes. You can change the GPSD port near the bottom of pat configure file.

[@dvcrash]

Great instructions Jason. I have run into a snag though. at the 6:07 mark of the video you go into getardoplist, when I do this all I get back is the terminal is "bash: getardoplist: command not found" How do I proceed from here?

[@KM4ACK]

Anthony, did you copy both files to /usr/local/bin ? This is most likely the problem. de KM4ACK

[@dvcrash]

@@KM4ACK I followed your instructions to the letter. What do you suggest? I just checked that folder and inside is the findardop file downloaded.

[@KM4ACK]

Did you see getardoplist in /usr/local/bin ? de KM4ACK

[@dvcrash]

@@KM4ACK I figured it out, it was the fat finger syndrome.

[@KM4ACK]

happens to the best of us. glad you got it. de km4ack

[@californiakayaker]

JS8CALL off grid with even no time standard is easy and maybe getting to winlink ( which you talk about a few videos later) might be possible ? I just look at the stations on air and push the end of transmission timer button when the a station completes its pass. Works better than just about anything ! That said, haven't done anything at all with winlink yet.

[@AndyWragg]

Hi Jason, that map only covers mainland North America. Is there a map for the whole world as I'm in UK? Great content BTW ;-) 73

[@KM4ACK]

I remember finding one of the world before using a google search but can't quickly locate it again. If you can find one using google, you could simply swap it out with the one I reference downloading in the video. Be sure to put it in the same directory and name it the same as the one I offer for download. Then it should work with no issue. If I can find the world map again, I will post a link here. Thanks for watching! de KM4ACK

[@KM4ACK]

I found it just after posting the previous comment - static.dxengineering.com/pdf/WorldGridMap_1.pdf de KM4ACK

[@cliffsirman6657]

Hi Jason. Great Video; however when I try to run getardoplist I receive the following error message. Any thoughts? 2019/05/14 13:48:08 Unable to load/write config: invalid character 'l' looking for beginning of value. Thanks again!

[@KM4ACK]

Sounds like there is something amiss with your pat config file. Can you start pat by running 'pat http' at the command line? I'm guessing you can't. You will need to sort that out first. If you can't find the issue, email me [e-mail] and I'll can tell you how to create a blank config file for pat. Thanks for watching! de KM4ACK

[@cliffsirman6657]

@@KM4ACK You are correct Sir! I missed a double quote when I added my radio under hamlib_rigs. All works as advertised. Thanks again!

[@gautealarsen2580]

How can I mod the findardop fil? To put inn world map and 60m

[@mumi009]

ardop map available for europe like the one shown in this video for US? thx! David SV0SGS

[@KM4ACK]

In the pat menu config file, change "MAP=usa" to "MAP=world" for a world wide map. If you know of one that's available for download for just Europe, please send me a link so I can include in the next release of Pat Menu

[@badbob666]

thank you for this video Jason I got all the way to where it says view map and I came up with this error on option 2. ** (evince:6792): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files Enter an Option Number: ** (evince-previewer:6795): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files Filename "/home/pi/Documents/grid-map.pdf" does not exist or is not a regular file do you have any suggestions, thank you. Bob KN4QKV

[@KM4ACK]

Did you download the grid-map.pdf file? Did you place it in your Documents folder? Try this 'cd ~/Documents' then 'ls' (that is a lower case L) You should see the grid-map.pdf file listed. de KM4ACK

[@badbob666]

i found where I had typed in the command to get it but I think I put it into downloads instead of documents but I redid it into documents and it worked right this time thank you. KN4QKV

[@KM4ACK]

Glad you got it going. Thanks for watching! de KM4ACK

[@wcheilman]

can you import the lists into PAT stations?

[@KM4ACK]

If you are using Pat Menu, you can do this. Pat Menu 2 is in beta testing now and makes the process a WHOLE lot easier.

[@wcheilman]

@@KM4ACK KOOL. This brings another question, can PAT ping a station, to determine if it is accessible? This could make life simpler if you can automatically configure a list of possible stations.

[@AndyKopac]

Any way to make this work for Pactor?

[@KM4ACK]

This is an old video and the script has been deprecated. However, you can get a complete list by running - pat rmslist --mode pactor. If you want to save the list to your desktop, run: pat rmslist --mode pactor > ~/Desktop/pactor.txt

[@ForbiddenUser403]

A little linux foo for you.... pat rms list | grep whatever You can search for anything and combine multiple search options using grep.

[@MendarsMidway]

Jason, great vids on setting up Digital modes. I have an issue with the getardoplist script. I get errors about invalid Character 't" .... see below: pi@raspberrypi:/usr/local/bin $ ./getardoplist Please wait while we check your internet connection This may take up to a minute Connection Detected Please wait while files are download This may take several minutes Depending on your internet speed 2019/10/03 21:44:02 Unable to load/write config: invalid character 't' after object key 2019/10/03 21:44:02 Unable to load/write config: invalid character 't' after object key 2019/10/03 21:44:02 Unable to load/write config: invalid character 't' after object key 2019/10/03 21:44:02 Unable to load/write config: invalid character 't' after object key 2019/10/03 21:44:02 Unable to load/write config: invalid character 't' after object key All lists successfully downloaded ... When done from Documents DIR the file titles are there but only the heading line is inthe files: pi@raspberrypi:~/Documents/ardop-list $ ls -l total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 50 Oct 3 21:44 20mardoplist.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 50 Oct 3 21:44 30mardoplist.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 50 Oct 3 21:44 40mardoplist.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 50 Oct 3 21:44 80mardoplist.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 50 Oct 3 21:44 ardoplist.txt pi@raspberrypi:~/Documents/ardop-list $ more ardoplist.txt List Last Downloaded Thu Oct 3 21:44:02 CDT 2019 I re-downloaded the file and get same results? Any ideas??? thanks Daryl KB9RHR

[@KM4ACK]

Daryl, I haven’t seen this before but but have a suspicion. Can you help with a bit more info. First, I need to know which version of raspbian you are running. Buster or Stretch. If you don’t know, you can find out by running “cat /etc/os-release” Also, which version of Pat are you running? 0.6 or 0.7? To find out, run “dpkg -s pat” Once I get the info, I will see if I can replicate the problem here and if so, come up with a solution. 73, de KM4ACK

[@MendarsMidway]

@@KM4ACK Jason... was messing around today and found if I run findardop and getardoplist using sudo all works fine. Not sure where I messed up but it is my issue and not the scripts or you instructions. Thanks for the assist.

[@KM4ACK]

Sounds like a permissions issue. Glad you figured it out! 73, de KM4ACK

[@johnsparks6949]

Centurylink went down

[@KM4ACK]

??

[@W4TRI_Ronny]

@@KM4ACK Centurylink is an ISP. No other info.

[@KM4ACK]

Which link did you click on to see that error?