Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread David Tiller
Amen, George. Ham radio is about _radio_, not the internet. On Sep 8, 2018, at 19:13, George J Molnar mailto:geo...@molnar.com>> wrote: While it probably is a remote possibility that the WSJT-X team is contemplating adding internet-based linkages, I want to agree with N2ADV and emphatically say

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread G8DQX (WSJT developers on SF)
Igor, you forgot to mention that HLR & VLR technology is a *network* artefact, generally to be found in mobile telecommunications networks. The application to the Amateur Radio Service, where there are a large number of stations but *no* over-arching network control is very unclear. For a pu

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread James Shaver
One more concern I have in addition to the increasing popularity of portable operations outside of the reach of an Internet connection is the fact that while it may be easy to forget, there are still a significant number of Amateur Radio ops world-wide for whom Internet is either unreliable, pro

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread Hasan al-Basri
Bravo, George! Internet help with the decode? That's downright silly. If we are going to use the internet to replace even a portion of the performance of rf, heck why bother with rf at all, and we can have infinite sensitivity? Hasan On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 6:13 PM George J Molnar wrote: > Whil

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread George J Molnar
While it probably is a remote possibility that the WSJT-X team is contemplating adding internet-based linkages, I want to agree with N2ADV and emphatically say “no!” to any ham radio communications protocol that relies on anything but ham radio to work effectively. Even in this day of skimmers

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread James Shaver
Yes but my previous question about Internet usage still stands: When I am sitting in a park or out on a snowmobile trail with my KX3 and my laptop using a GPS for time sync since there’s no cell reception there, anything that relies on the Internet will be basically useless to me. Why would we

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread Игорь Ч via wsjt-devel
Hello Joe and all, . Most of questions raised on this subject can be solved via HLR/VLR database server usage, where visitor location register can match to the specific HF band where callsign, frequency, hash of the message being transmitted, protocol and code rate can be stored, callsign hash c