Customizing Your Output

The PacketCluster software allows you to customize what output you want to see. You, as a user, have the ability to control whether you want to see all types of announcements, and what type of DX announcements you want displayed on your screen. This latter function is done by using the DX Filtering capability of the software and is explained in the next section. Note that any customization you do (with the exception of the DX filtering) is only for your current login session. There are ways to make it permanent, and if you desire this feature, you should upload a user login command file to the node. This is done by doing UPLOAD/USERCMD, followed by the commands you want done every time you log in to the Cluster.

Bells Sometimes while you are connected to the Cluster, you may not want the bell signal sent to your terminal when any type of announcement, DX callout or Talk packet is sent. This can be controlled with the following commands: 

SET/BEEP

SET/NOBEEP

DX Announcements You can control the output of DX spots to your terminal with the following commands:

SET/DX_ANNOUNCEMENTS

SET/NODX_ANNOUNCEMENTS

You might wish to turn off DX callouts while you download a bulletin or read mail, and don't wish extraneous text to be inserted in your file. This command provides the facility to do that.

New Mail Announcements You may wish to disable the output of announcements when you receive new mail for the same reason as above. The following commands will control these announcements:

SET/MAIL_ANNOUNCEMENTS

SET/NOMAIL_ANNOUNCEMENTS

Talk Messages You may wish to turn off Talk capability for some reason. This may be controlled as follows:

SET/TALK

SET/NOTALK

If you have Talk mode disabled, anyone will be notified of this setting that tries to send you a Talk packet.

WWV Announcements WWV Propagation reports can be eliminated from your output if desired. This is done with the following commands:

SET/WWV_ANNOUNCEMENTS

SET/NOWWV_ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Page Length The READ and TYPE commands default to page mode; i.e. a certain number of lines are displayed, and then you are prompted as to whether you want to continue or not. You may use the /NOPAGE qualifier on these commands to prevent these prompts, and read continuously (this might be the case if you were storing in a buffer or printing on your printer). Alternatively, you can specify a large page size so that you will not ever get the prompts. By default, a page size is 20 lines of output. With the Page Length command, you may set your personal page size to any number.

SET/PAGE line-count