Ability to do tactical callsign option, template?

[programmin1]

How do I set a tactical callsign in Pat? I would like to use a tactical callsign and ICS-309 form template... it appears Pat does not have the option but I heard Winlink Express might?

I know JS and some web tech, is this something I might contribute in this area to to be able to do this?

[martinhpedersen]

Hi,

I'm glad you're willing to contibute to this project. Both these features have been discussed previously.

You can provide a list of auxiliary callsigns in the config file: https://github.com/la5nta/pat/blob/efd322d06404f7794b08bb854be09050cc941ace/cfg/config.go#L23

Using the CLI you can also override the From: field to match a aux_call. Thus you are able to send and receive messages with an tactical callsign:

pat compose
From [LA5NTA]: MY-AUX-CALL
To: LA1B
Cc: LE1OA
Subject: I'm sending this as MY-AUX-CALL
Press ENTER to start composing the message body.

The ability to override From is currently not available in the web gui. You are welcome to send a PR with suggestions on how to implement this :)

Discussions related to tactical callsigns: https://github.com/la5nta/pat/issues/143, Tactical Addresses/Callsigns @ pat-users, Multiple Callsigns @ pat-users,

Discussions related to Winlink forms: https://github.com/la5nta/pat/pull/76, ICS forms? @ pat-users, Winlink Express Forms @ pat-users, Forms @ pat-users

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[xylo04]

Greetings,

As Martin mentioned before, tactical callsigns are known in Pat as auxiliary addresses and have been supported for some time.

In addition, Winlink forms have been recently added in v0.11.0!