Re: [wsjt-devel] May I be a FOX ?

2018-06-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Pino -- On 6/1/2018 3:40 PM, Pino Zollo ZP4KFX wrote: Hi everybody, I am Pino, ZP4KFX. I am not a DX expedition but it seems that I am the only ZP4 station remained. Years ago the where moretwo went SK... the others seem QRT. If I appear on 20m or 17m a huge pile-up grows over me...and

[wsjt-devel] May I be a FOX ?

2018-06-01 Thread Pino Zollo
Hi everybody, I am Pino, ZP4KFX. I am not a DX expedition but it seems that I am the only ZP4 station remained. Years ago the where moretwo went SK... the others seem QRT. If I appear on 20m or 17m a huge pile-up grows over me...and I am not a contester and neither a good DX operator...

[wsjt-devel] UDP connection

2018-06-01 Thread Michele via wsjt-devel
Hello, I would connect my cluster software DX FIGHTER CLUSTER to WSJT-X, trough a UDP connection. But in VB.net and PYTHON i get only uncomprensible string. I try 'localhost' port 2237. JT allert work well. Where i wrong? 73

Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem mitigation info request

2018-06-01 Thread Bill Somerville
Hi Pat, understood, but we have to draw the line somewhere on expected skills of the user otherwise we would have to start each piece of documentation with a huge list of references about setting up and operating an Amateur Radio station. We set the bar fairly high because we are a small team

Re: [wsjt-devel] working stations over 10000 km on 6m

2018-06-01 Thread Jim Brown
On 6/1/2018 6:15 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: As you might expect, we are busy looking at more comprehensive ways of addressing the problem.  The solution is not one for v1.9.1, however. Thanks Jim K9YC -- Check out the

Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem mitigation info request

2018-06-01 Thread patrick hamel
The existing manual requires some thinking and digital experience (setting levels etc...). The problem I see coming is that the voice operator who wants the QSO with "xxx" (and is afraid that the weather will stop the expedition before the big-guns are done so he can get through) will

Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem mitigation info request

2018-06-01 Thread Bill Somerville
On 01/06/2018 17:40, patrick hamel wrote: This manual is probably a job for someone younger and better than myself, but you are all developing code and it probably won't get done unless I do "something". Hi Pat, what's wrong with the existing manual? Quoted from the WSJT-X release

[wsjt-devel] Problem mitigation info request

2018-06-01 Thread patrick hamel
I was an early adopter because JT65 allowed me to ham and not disturb my sick wife. The learning curve took a while, even after a long time on 600 meters with WSPR experience. I have not written a line of code since the company said I was too old 12 years ago, so I am now just a "user" who

[wsjt-devel] Contest Mode Option?

2018-06-01 Thread George Molnar
Is it possible that the software could interpret receipt of a grid in place of an expected signal report as an automatic switch to contest mode? That way the receiving station doesn’t need to even know that the transmitter is using one mode or the other. Added benefit - if signals are such

Re: [wsjt-devel] working stations over 10000 km on 6m

2018-06-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Jim -- On 5/31/2018 4:47 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 5/31/2018 9:43 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: Of course this could be done in FT8.  But as I emphasized in a previous email, we did not want to use a different solution for FT8 and MSK144. As currently implemented, MSK144 has no spare bits. Two

[wsjt-devel] fatal BUG in WSJT-X v1.9.0-rc4

2018-06-01 Thread John Sved
Hello, I have been using WSJT-X with FT8 for the last few months. My system:  Ubuntu MATE 16.04 A routine update caused a new version of WSJT-X to be installed. The present version:   WSJT-X  v1.9.0-rc4 After this update a few days ago my first usage tonight showed a problem: Apparently no