Development Status

All of the core elements are now functional. The pyfmt script provides the following:

• Set station information, Call and Grid
• Select Input Audio Device via PyAudio
• Setup Rig Control via Hamlib Control Libraries
• Configure COM Ports settings via PySerial
• Write out pyfmt.ini and fmt.ini files
• Widgets are drawn with a combination of tKinter and Pmw.

Individual Program Functions

Each of the utility programs and shell scritp files in the FMT package performs a single function ( excerpts from FMT User Guide ):

gocal Shell file, must be edited to your specific needs. Executes program fmtest for a number of specified frequency-calibration stations. Output will accumulate in file fmt.all.

fmtest Sets the dial frequency of a CAT-controlled radio and performs a sequence of measurements of the strongest resulting audio tone near a specified offset frequency. Input parameters are taken from the command line, and output goes to files fmt.out and fmt.all. The latter file is cumulative.

fmtave Averages data found in a specified file having the format of fmt.all. Output goes to file fmtave.out.

fcal Calculates a best-fit straight line for a data saved in fmtave.out. Results are saved in file fcal.out.

fmeasure Calculates the properly calibrated frequency of each test signal found in file fmtave.out. Results are saved in file fmeasure.out, and these are the numbers you should report if you are entering the Frequency Measuring Test.

General System Level Packages

The following packages are required at the system level:

System

• asciidoctor
• automake
• autoconf
• GCC
• Gfortran
• libfftw3-dev
• portaudio19-dev
• libhamlib-utils ( optional if building Hamlib3 locally )

sudo apt-get install libjack-jackd2-dev
sudo apt-get install portautio19-dev

There may be other system using the Jack subsystem. Care should be taken when installing manually. The Launchpad version of PyFMT ( when released ) will use a Pre-Depends section to deal with this situaiton.

Python2 Modules

The folloiwing packages are for system that have Python2 as the default Python installaiton. To test which version of Python you have, in a termainl, type:

python --version

If yout have 2.7.0 thru 2.7.x the following packages apply to that system

• python-future
• python-pmw
• python-pyaudio
• python-serial
• python-tk

Python3 Systems

For systems with Python3 as their default, the following packages should be installed:

• python3-pyaudio
• python3-serial
• python3-tk

Checkout and Compiling

Check out the code from the WSJT Sourceforge Project

* svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/wsjt/wsjt/branches/fmt
* cd ./fmt
* ./autogen.sh
* make
* sudo make install

./autogen.sh --with-rigctl="/home/<usr-name>/jtsdk/hamlib3/bin/rigctl"

The rigctl path must include the actual name of the file, for example, if your are using the binary built from JTSDK for Nix, your path would look similar to this:

# Always add the file name
# Always use single quotes, and **do not** use variables that expand, like $HOME or $USER
#
./autogen.sh --with-rigctl='/home/ki7mt/jtsdk/hamlib3/bin/rigctl'

Uninstall

To uninstall PyFMT, ferform the following tasks in a terminal

cd ./fmt               # location of the checkout
sudo make uninstall    # run the invocation
make distclean         # clean the source tree

Usage and Testing

There is an FMT USer Guide available from the WSJT main site. Additionally, within the install directory you will find the gocal file. Edit this as needed for your local stations.

Before running any of the FMT Tools, users should run pyfmt then select option (1) to configure Stations Parameters. there are two option you can pass to pyfmt

pyfmt -n NAME -p PATH

pyfmt -n NAME specifics the profile to use in setting up Station Parameters. for example, using pyfmt -n ts2000 would create an instance for the Kenwood TS-2000, with all files and ini files being located in:

/home/user-name/.local/share/ts2000

This configuratoin allows for running many different rig / port combinations, which allows running multiple radios at the same time. The contests of the folder, after a full run with PyFMT would look similar to:

├── fcal.out
├── fcal.plt
├── fmt.all
├── fmtave.out
├── fmt.ini
├── fmt.out
├── pyfmt.ini
├── gocal
├── hamlib_rig_numbers
└── pyfmtrc.nix

After successful rig control setup, follow the FMT User Guide to perform the calibration test.