Hi Andy.
I updated the readme.md, on github, but it looks like it is lost. Github is rocketscience, hi. It still only contains the compilation instructions for those who don’t like precompiled binaries.
Yes, this has SOTA added with callsigns of CW activators and chasers, and summits.
Best is to run in pileup mode with QRN, QSB, flutter and LID’s enabled and CW Max and Min speed to +10 and -10 (this at least reflects European reality in speeds, hi). QRM adds ops who call CQ over your frequency. I leave that off, but you could use it if you like to train on fighting in keeping a frequency during a contest.
Click Run and then call CQ.
Pressing spacebar moves to next field.
For chasers you only need to fill in the call and the RST. The Sent RST is “calculated” on the strength of the station. They might ask for your reference, then press F6 to send the reference. If copied, they sent TU 73. If they ask for NR (remember, this is a contest program, but I might remove that), press F2 to resend their RST. It tries to emulate what would happen if they receive you 339, so they might ask two or three times for the ref. The S-value is highlighted, so if you receive 549, you only need to type 4.
So in short, enter call, press space bar, enter RST, press enter, TU is sent and you’re ready for the next one.
For S2S simulation, the program will randomly pick a call with prefix and or suffix, and pretend it’s someone holidaying and doing SOTA. It then selects a summit-reference, matching their prefix. So as example a DLxYYY/P or a DL/FxYYY or a DL/DxYYY/P could be activating from DL, and if they are selected at random by the program as S2S, they get a DL/ summit assigned, and will send their reference-code immediatly after their RST. If you miss it, press F7 to repeat the RST + REF, of F8 to repeat the ref. For a valid exchange you need to add the hyphen!
The program has more features, but check the help for the original documentation.
Hope that helps to get you going
73, Martin - PE1EEC