[Hamlib-developer] What is rigsmtr?

[Alexandru C. <al...@ph...>]

Does anybody know what rigsmtr is supposed to do?

The man page certainly needs to be updated/finished, as it seems to be a copy of
the rigswr man page:

DESCRIPTION
rigswr uses Hamlib to control a rig to measure S-Meter vs azimuth:
It  scans  frequencies  from start_freq to stop_freq with step freq_step. For
each frequency, it transmits at 25% of total POWER during 0.5 second in CW mode
and read VSWR.

and so on...

I looked in the source code and it seems to scan the whole range of the rotator
from min_az to max_az in random steps. Actually, it goes to min_az, then
commands the rotator to max_az. While the rotator moves, it reads back the
signal strength vs. azimuth.

Shouldn't it scan in a specified range using fixed steps as rigswr does?

73
Alex OZ9AEC