I've brought this up to the local guys here in Minnesota, too. They are
just not aware of the accessibility issue with FLDigi. As an aside not
directly related to accessibility, I sat through a pretty good presentation
on FLDigi during a radio club program. I downloaded and installed it, but
found the setup to be a hassle - maybe it was just me, since I hadn't been
on any digital modes for quite some time. (RTFM, right?)
Still, to compare, I reinstalled Digipan and it was up and running in no
time. I ended up having to do some web searches to figure out the way to get
FLDigi to talk with the radio. But the point here is that although there
are lots of bells and whistles, whenever something is complicated and
feature-rich there seems to be a steeper learning curve. In a real
emergency, you would have to be darned sure everyone who is set up with this
system has used it successfully and trained on it over and over or you will
end up with tech support hassles and lots of frustration. The more
complicated things are, the more brittle they become. And complication
usually also means bad or no accessibility for some parts of a program
interface.
Our club has started regular digital nets, so maybe I will try to learn more
about digital in that environment. I really like it when things are
simpler, though... This morning while writing this post I started FLDigi
and immediately got an error message from the library file, though I was
able to receive on it after intervention with the mouse. (I can see the
screen.) By comparison I started Digipan and it loaded immediately, and was
receiving automatically.
73 - Pat
Regards,
Patrick Tice
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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:19 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: fl didgy
The only thing I've found is use other programs, FLDigi is not accessible
and the author basically told me "too bad" when I asked him about it. For
everything except NBEMS, there is an alternative program you can use, when
it comes to NBEMS we're out of luck until someone comes up with something
better. I have the local ARES leadership contacting the program author about
it, seeing if he can be persuaded to care but for me personally his answer
was to use digitalk for some aspects of the program which won't work on any
computer I have setup for radio stuff right now and not to bother him,
bother the author of that program instead. When I told him everything I have
is XP or newer and it won't work, I pretty much got the old "go back to the
author of FLDIGI for now I'll work on it if there's a lot of demand but no
matter what it won't work on all aspects of the program anyway". So, that's
as far as I got and as I said, I just let everyone in the area know about
it, none of them seem to care it's their new pet project but it's popular in
MARS as well and for all modes they do and all but I have alternative
programs for everything except NBEMS which really is one of those things,
some groups are loving it, others aren't touching it so I'm not too worried
about it right now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray T. Mahorney" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:29 AM
Subject: fl didgy
> Summit county ARES and Portage county have been playing with this
> http://www.w1hkj.com/download.html
> This appears to be a package which supports multiple digital formats.
> Here's the problem it renders
> as a waterfall display very similar to HRD. Has anyone played with
> this and is there a work around for the display issues?
>
>
>
> Ray T. Mahorney
> WA4WGA
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