Experimental Features

Hello Contest provides some features that are still under development and subject to change.

SO2V

If your radio has two separate receivers you can use both in SO2V mode. I'm testing this with an IC-7610. If you own a different radio, I'll be very glad hearing about your experience with this feature.

To enable SO2V for a radio, you need to modify the configuration accordingly.

For Hamlib, you need to configure which tokens are used for the two VFOs (for example VFO1/VFO2 or Main/Sub):

{
  "radios": [
    {
      "name": "IC-7610 SO2V",
      "type": "hamlib",
      "address": "localhost:4532",
      "keyer": "radio",
      "options": {
        "vfo1": "Main",
        "vfo2": "Sub",
        "rit_xit_per_vfo": "false"
      }
    }
  ]
}

For TCI, you need to configure the TRX indices of the two VFOs you want to use:

{
  "radios": [
    {
      "name": "AetherSDR SO2V",
      "type": "tci",
      "address": "localhost:50001",
      "keyer": "radio",
      "options": {
        "trx": "0",
        "trx2": "1",
        "rit_xit_per_vfo": "true"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The option rit_xit_per_vfo indicates if your radio supports a separate RIT/XIT setting per VFO. The IC-7610 does not.

HamDial

Hello Contest uses the HamDial libary to integrate an Ulanzi D100H input device to control several functions:

Button	Function
top left	next spot down the spots table
top middle	select the best matching callsign and send the first ESM message
top right	next spot up the spots table
left side top	mark in bandmap
left side bottom	n/a
right side top	focus VFO1
right side bottom	focus VFO2
turn the dial	tune the currently focused VFO

The functions mapping is currently hard-coded to gain some experience in actual contests before evolving this feature further.

To use the device:

• turn the device on,
• pair it with your PC over Bluetooth,
• enable Bandmap > HamDial in the main menu.

OpenDeck Actions

The hcplugin for OpenDeck allows to remote-control Hello Contest from a StreamDeck or similar device.

SDRainer

SDRainer is an experimental CW skimmer implementation that provides its own gRPC-based API. Hello Contest can talk to SDRainer through this API and use it as a spot source.

To use SDRainer with Hello Contest

• start sdrainer,
• enable Bandmap > SDRainer in the main menu.