PAT-WINLINK-CONFIGURE(1)

💖 PAT-WINLINK-CONFIGURE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Pat Configure manual, section 1, no cap 🫶 this one's short and sweet but it's so important if you wanna actually get on the air, so like… pay attention bestie, i'm begging 🙏

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✨ NAME ✨

pat-winlink_configure — she opens up Pat's configuration file for you using the system default editor. that's it. that's the whole job. queen of doing exactly one thing 💅

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

🌸 Main Configuration 🌸

so the config file you're editing lives at whatever path is handed back by PAT_CONFIG_PATH, which you get from running:

pat env

like, run that, look at what PAT_CONFIG_PATH spits out, and that's your file babes 🗂️✨

now — to get "on the air" (yes the original literally put it in quotes, iconic) you're gonna have to set up three things first, no skipping:

• your callsign
• your maidenhead locator
• your secure login credentials

so go find these three attributes and set them appropriately, bestie:

• mycall — your callsign, main character energy
• locator — your maidenhead locator
• secure_login_password — your secure login password 🔐

and the config file should look a lil somethin' like this ✨:

{
  "mycall": "LA5NTA",
  "locator": "JP20qe",
  "secure_login_password": "MYPASSWORD", }

periodt, that's the vibe. go set it up 😌💅

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📝 NOTES 📝

heads up bestie: the executable and the man pages got renamed from pat to pat-winlink (see #994822) 🚨 so if you were looking for the old name, that's why your brain is buffering rn 😭

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👀 See Also 👀

• pat-winlink(1) — go read her too, she's the whole point of all this 🫶

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and that's a wrap babes 🎀 this was pat 1.0.0, dated 2026-04-19, and the manual page you just read is PAT-WINLINK-CONFIGURE(1). slay, go configure ur radio, ily, bye 💖✨🦋