General description
The CHAT is an application, which provides a very sophisticated user interface for real-time RX & TX communication. It supports up to 50 predefined (by the user) quick messages (with macros). The RX and TX mode can be selected from the list of supported RX & TX modes (RX and TX modes can be different). ‘FFT’, ‘Save’, ‘Lock’ and ‘Reset’ buttons in the CHAT user interface have the same use as in the corresponding decoder (which is currently in use). By clicking ‘Config’, you can configure RX and TX parameters as well as the Chat Application itself. The main interface is shown in the picture below:
SkySweeper supports both FFT and waterfall display modes for decoder tuning. The Decoder Spectrum Dialog chapter gives more information about spectrum display options.
The upper window is called the RX window and the lower window is called the TX window. The TX window contains theTX macro panel, which is used to copy predefined blocks of text into the TX window. The TX window contains also the TX edit line, where test can be written when transmitter is on. Pressing enter the line is copied at the end of TX transmitter buffer Transmitter is started automatically if enter is pressed when the line is empty. The edit line contains also the drop down list, which contains the latest lines.
Configuration
Pressing the ‘Config’ button opens the following configuration dialog.
Left (RX) Selection
Here you can select the received transmission mode. SkyBoost and Mfsk16 doesn’t require registeration.
Right (TX) Selection
Here you can select the transmitted transmission mode. SkyBoost and Mfsk16 doesn’t require registeration.
RX configuration
The receiver can be configured by clicking the ‘RX’ icon with left mouse click. The parameters of the RX mode is described in used modes help sections. For example if ‘CW’ has been selected as a RX mode , then CW’s configuration will be opened.
TX configuration
The receiver can be configured by clicking the ‘TX’ icon with left mouse click. The parameters of the TX mode is described in used modes help sections. For example if ‘CW’ has been selected as a TX mode , then CW’s configuration will be opened.
Chat Application configuration
The chat application receiver can be configured by clicking the ‘Chat application’ icon with left mouse click.Then the dialog shown below is opened.
Parameters
Duplex -If this is set, the RX is active also when transmitting
Delete TX text when transmitted
-If this is set, the transmitted text will be deleted from TX window after it has been transmitted
Copy TX to RX Window
-If this is set, the transmitted text will be copied also to RX window with specified font
Copy TX to RX Window
-If this is set, the transmitted text will be copied also to RX window with specified font
Keep TX On -This parameter tells how many seconds the idle text will be transmitted after TX burst has been ended
Idle Text -This the idle text, which is sent when Keep TX On time >0
RX Window settings
Bkgnd -Background colour of RX window
Recv Font -RX font style & colour in RX window
Xmit Font -TX font style & colour in RX window
TX Window settings
Bkgnd -Background colour of TX window
Xmit Font -Not yet transmitted text font style & colour in TX window
Sent Font -Transmitted text font style & colour in TX window
Check the chat box screen shot here.
