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This site is intended to serve as documentation for Tucnak - hamradio VHF contest log. You can read it, create your own pages or correct spelling.

I maintain this site in English only, since I am not able to maintain more than one languages. English is preferred because most of hams understand it. But this wiki is not restricted to English - you can write pages in your mother tongue. Many thanks to Jerôme F0FLO for maintaining the site in French, Hannes DK1HJ in German and Sergey RA3WND and Vitaliy UR6LAD in Russian.

Because of spammer's attacks you must ask me (ok1zia.AT.nagano.cz) to allow account create. Sorry.

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About Tucnak

Tucnak is a VHF contest logbook. Tucnak is executable on Linux operating system and also for other UNIX like operating systems. Can be run uder MS Windows with Cygwin library too (older version). You can download Tucnak from http://tucnak.nagano.cz.

Available translations of wiki

• Français Maintained by Jerôme F0FLO, tnx!
• Deutsch Maintained by Hannes DK1HJ, tnx!
• Русский Maintained by Sergey RA3WND и Vitaliy UR6LAD, tnx!

Machine translation can be done by Google:

• Čeština
• Deutsch
• Русский

Download

First look at Changelog

Please download Tucnak here http://tucnak.nagano.cz/download.php#ver2

openSUSE users can find rpm packages here http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/ Even simpler, search for "tucnak" at http://software.opensuse.org/search and follow the instructions for 1-click installation.

ArchLinux users can build the AUR package tucnak2

Screenshots

• 
  QSOs window
• 
  Statistics
• 
  Polar map

Documentation

Not fully completed yet, I'm working on it...

• Features
  • Supported Contests
• Quick Start
• HF contest setup
• Install
• Settings
  • Post Install Settings
  • Files
  • Variables
  • Command line
• New Contest
• Network
• Control
  • Basic control
  • Edit QSO
  • Hotkeys
  • Tutorial
• Output formats
• Activity
  • Duplicate callsign
  • Advanced
  • After contest
• Menu
  • Contest
  • File
  • Edit
  • Bands
  • Subwins
  • Setup
  • Help
• Subwin types
• Supported hardware
• Using NTP
• References
• Thanks

• Installing
  • Ubuntu "Jaunty" (9.04)
  • Ubuntu "Intrepid" (8.10)
• Compiling
  • Ubuntu "Karmic" (9.10)
  • Ubuntu 'Hardy' (8.04 LTS)

Tucnak users

OK2M, DR5A, OK5TR, OK1HRA, G0VHF/M1CRO, G1OGY,OK2FUG, OK1RCA, DL1E, DL5YBZ, OK2AIA, HG6Z, OM0AMI, UR6LAD, OK1KQH, OM3KEG, F8KTH, IQ3WW, DK1HJ, OM4K, YT1ET/YT3T, RU2FM, US5WE/UW5W, EM80H, F6KHK, OK2OAS, OK1KZD, US5WU, UR5WCE, TC03W, DL1JBE, DM3DA, DG6MAN, OK1RAK, RW3WR, UR7LL, YU1ET.

How to help?

• By testing stable and development branch of Tucnak and sending error list to me.
• Help with refill data files like tucnakdw and tucnakwiz.
• Laud about Tucnak :-)
• If you have some idea how to improve Tucnak, please mail me this idea.
• Write a new part of Tucnak.
• Translate this documentation to other languages (or repair bugs in the English version :-) ).
• Create package for your distribution.
• Voluntary small contribute for beers please sent to author (to me).

73! Ladislav Vaiz, OK1ZIA
<MYCALL>@nagano.cz

Obsolete branch 1

Tucnak: english documentation, česká dokumentace

SSB daemon: english documentation, česká dokumentace

Development

Shortwave features

Optional exchange draft

Merge QSOs from all bands to one window

All bands statistics

Converting from TACLog

The source of inspiration for Tucnak was the DOS program TACLog (Author: Bo, OZ2M) as Lada, OK1ZIA freely admits. In the late 1990s TACLog was in regular use by over 200 stations, many continuing with the same logger today.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to run a full-service TACLog, with CQ-caller, CW keyer and auto PTT as it must run directly on MS-DOS and requires a 'real' Soundblaster card.
In this section I hope to provide useful information for those contemplating changing from TACLog to Tucnak and I would like to encourage everyone to add their knowledge and experience here to help and assist others coming after.
--'OGY 01:36, 17 August 2008 (CEST)

• Articles
  • Converting TACLog v 1,9xx C_W files for use with Tucnak
  • NOW Obselete - Implemented since V 2.20: Notes on hand-editing Tucnak EDI files for G-land OE Contests