[DXLog.net - Support] DXlog.net with PowerSDR and CW Skimmer?

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Andrew O'Brien <k3ukandy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  However, I  would
> like to also run CW Skimmer and DDutil so that CW Skimmer can also share
> the frequency information. I can't figure out how to set DDutil, PowerSDR,
> and DXlog so that DXlog sends CW, as I said... I can do it without DDutil
> being involved but not with.
>

CW Skimmer was designed to share frequency information with a logging
program and radio via "Announce" messages and other commands sent or posted
to the telnet window, not via DDutil or OmniRig or similar methods that
require a COM port.  This allows "RigSync" to be accomplished in a more
universal way.

For example, if you click on a callsign in the CW Skimmer window, CW
Skimmer posts a message to the telnet clients:

To ALL de SKIMMER <2031Z> : Clicked on "K0AD" at 14034.7


If you click on an empty spot in the Skimmer Waterfall, CW Skimmer
generates:

To ALL de SKIMMER <2031Z> : Clicked on "" at 14041.5

This is called "Click to Tune".

So whether you are using a FlexRadio or any radio, DXLog.net could watch
for these commands in the cluster monitoring code, then send CAT commands
the proper Radio to QSY to that frequency, and optionally fill in the
callsign, similar to clicking on a spot on the DXLog.net band map.  In
practice, though, the DXLog.net band map has a much wider frequency span,
and if you click on CW Skimmer, the keyboard/mouse focus will switch to CW
Skimmer, whereas you really want to keep it connect to DXLog.net at all
times.  (N1MM has a nice feature:  it periodically forces mouse/keyboard
focus back to itself, every 5 to 10 seconds or so, allowing you to
temporarily click on other software like HamCAP while you keep operating.)

The CW Skimmer waterfall can also be made to "track" the active radio's
VFO, *if* the logging program sends special "cluster" commands to CW
Skimmer via the telnet connection, whenever the VFO frequency changes, like
this:

SKIMMER/QSY 14017.0


To flag dupes or highlight a new band country multiplier in a different
color on CW Skimmer's display, the logging program could send:

SKIMMER/STATUS K0AD 14034.7 DUPE
SKIMMER/STATUS S51WO 14017.0 BNDCTY


All of this is clearly documented in the CW Skimmer help text.  FYI,
Win-Test implemented CW Skimmer waterfall tracking only, but not
click-to-tune or callsign highlighting, as far as I can tell.

73,
Bob, N6TV