[wsjt-devel] R: Subprocess failed with exit code 2

2019-01-04 Thread Luigi Casari
Hi, On computers with windows-xp if you leave wsjt-x active for a long time at some point the menu disappears.He always did it also with the old versions. I think it's a memory problem, if I turn it OFF and ON again it's normal. I have to try what happens on the computer with Windows 7 and on the l

[wsjt-devel] R: probably another hash mixup

2019-01-04 Thread Luigi Casari
Hello Serge the same thing happened to me when I wanted to call someone using the special prefix HB90. It seemed that I was not able to call the desired station because in transmission another call came out. Then I gave up but if I remember correctly all the fields from TX1 to TX5 contained the cor

[wsjt-devel] R: Problem usin special prefix and WSJT-X V2.0

2019-01-04 Thread Luigi Casari
Hi Bill, Thanks for the reply. A friend sent me a link to the USKA website where they explained to remove the auto sequence. The article was in German and fortunately Chroma suggested to translate the page into Italian. It seems that by removing auto sequence it is possible to make the qso betwee

Re: [wsjt-devel] [NCCC] Hmm

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Frantz
I'm CCing the wsjt developer list so people designing improvements to wsjt are aware of some of the issues Mac users face running multi-digital-mode contests. On 1/3/19 at 7:16 PM, ae...@arrl.net (Bill AE6JV) wrote: My plan is to run in RTTY with RUMlogNG, which uses CAT to send and receive R

[wsjt-devel] RTTY RU Practise session of 5 Jan

2019-01-04 Thread Erik Icket
Hi, My participation in the "2230-2300 UTC, Friday, 5 January - FT8 focus" session went very very smoothly and I was able to complete 10 QSO in little above 30 mins on 40 m. Some observations (all positive) : * received one popup dialog with an "Invalid Rcvd Exch" for a station re

[wsjt-devel] probably another hash mixup

2019-01-04 Thread F6BHK
Hi there Well, It might be of help: another hash mixup issue probably. No answer needed. Here is the QSO 225200 0 -1.3 2868 ~ CQ JT/PD0LK 225217 Tx 2868 ~ F6BHK 225245 Tx 2868 ~ F6BHK 225300 -3 -1.3 2868 ~ F6BHK -08 225315 Tx 2868 ~ F6BHK 225330 -8 -1.3 2868 ~

Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem usin special prefix and WSJT-X V2.0

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 19:57, Bill Somerville wrote: it is technically possible for two non-standard callsign stations to have QSO using FT8 in WSJT-X v2.0.0 Hi Luigi, I should have qualified the statement above. My example is only possible if one of the callsigns is a compound callsign since the sugg

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 20:05, nick wrote: The User Guide says "these are built to target one contemporary version of a Linux distribution". Is there a note anywhere saying which Qt version has been used to build them so that users can check that the Qt version included in their distribution as standar

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread nick
On 04/01/2019 17:30, Bill Somerville wrote: ok, I understand now. Yes should build WSJT-X using the headers and libraries you intend to run with. Thank you for the comprehensive reply Bill. I will rebuild with Qt5.9.7 tomorrow. Referring to the .deb files here... https://physics.princeton.

Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem usin special prefix and WSJT-X V2.0

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 19:22, Luigi Casari wrote: Hello to all I am Luigi HB9CXZ, this year for the ninetieth of USKA use HB90CXZ. I use the latest version of WSJT-X 2.0 on a computer running Windows XP. I can not make qso with portable stations, the reports are cut both in transmission and in reception.

[wsjt-devel] Problem usin special prefix and WSJT-X V2.0

2019-01-04 Thread Luigi Casari
Hello to all I am Luigi HB9CXZ, this year for the ninetieth of USKA use HB90CXZ. I use the latest version of WSJT-X 2.0 on a computer running Windows XP. I can not make qso with portable stations, the reports are cut both in transmission and in reception. For example I could not make a qso with EW

Re: [wsjt-devel] Subprocess failed with exit code 2

2019-01-04 Thread Michael Tope
Hi Bill, Since I've been SWL only so far on FT8, I hadn't bothered to enter my callsign or grid locator into the "station details" entry window under "settings". Perhaps it is a coincidence, but since entering my callsign and grid locator, the subject problem has not recurred despite letting

Re: [wsjt-devel] problem building wsjtx-2.0.0 from source on Ubuntu

2019-01-04 Thread Paul Milligan
Hi Bill, many thanks for pointing out my mistaking that my Ubuntu has the right qt version. Looks like I'll need to upgrade my Ubuntu OS. I'm usually hesitant in upgrading because it sometimes breaks some specially built software that needs the older libs. 73, Paul  K6WIS Pa

[wsjt-devel] RTTY Roundup stories and pictures requested!

2019-01-04 Thread Jeff Stai
I write the QST results article for the RTTY Roundup. The article is only as good as the input I receive from all of you, the operators that participated. I'll be asking for your thoughts on the contest when it is over. Stories of your trials, tribulations, and your successes and milestones. Peop

Re: [wsjt-devel] problem building wsjtx-2.0.0 from source on Ubuntu

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 17:51, Paul Milligan wrote: I have all the necessary prerequisite  tools and libraries installed on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS laptop, Hi Paul, that is not correct, you do not have all the necessary prerequisites. Quoted from the WSJT-X source tarball INSTALL file: Installation ==

Re: [wsjt-devel] problem building wsjtx-2.0.0 from source on Ubuntu

2019-01-04 Thread Jim Shorney
Been there, done that. 14.04LTS is almost end-of-life and does not meet all the dependencies. And it likely never will. Safest answer is upgrade to 18.04LTS. 73 -Jim NU0C On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:51:03 -0800 Paul Milligan wrote: > I'm having a problem building the latest version wsjtx-2.0.0 f

[wsjt-devel] problem building wsjtx-2.0.0 from source on Ubuntu

2019-01-04 Thread Paul Milligan
I'm having a problem building the latest version wsjtx-2.0.0 from source tarball I have all the necessary prerequisite  tools and libraries installed on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS laptop, and I previously built wsjtx-1.9.1 from the source tarball with no problems. But for version 2.0.0: No problem wit

[wsjt-devel] JT9E fast sub-mode technical characteristics

2019-01-04 Thread Simon
1. For an experimental works, we have been evaluating FT8 with superb results. 2. However, we want to evaluate a FASTER mode. 3. Any recommendation? Is JT9E a good choice, at 5 seconds cycle time, instead of 15 seconds FT8? Does JT9E mode use the same 'advanced decode technologies' as FT8? How

Re: [wsjt-devel] Use of 4-character qualifier in Tx 6 (more)

2019-01-04 Thread Martin Davies G0HDB
On 4 Jan 2019 at 10:58, Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi Martin, > > the version I tested with was a pre-release version and we may have > fixed up the print on the status bar. Either way the result is the same > as the first part of the message is a hash code, because WSJT-X has > concatenated you

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 15:55, nick wrote: I did not compile Qt.  I used the .run file from here... Could it be that builds are backwards compatible but not forward compatible with respect to Qt versions? e.g. a build using 5.8.1 would run on say 5.5, but not on 5.9.7? Hi Nick, ok, I understand now.

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread nick
On 04/01/2019 15:29, Richard Shaw wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:16 AM nick wrote: Probably a silly question, but must I rebuild wsjtx-2.0.0 from scratch with Qt 5.9.7 for it to run using Qt5.9.7? Wish I could tell you what the problem is but I can tell you that I build WSJT-X for Fedora a

[wsjt-devel] Fwd: Re: Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread nick
Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:55:10 + From: nick To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net I used the .run file from here http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/ ___ wsjt-devel m

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread nick
On 04/01/2019 15:31, Bill Somerville wrote: There may be some issues with non-standard Qt configuration on Linux systems. On other platforms we have to generate a qt.conf to tell WSJT-X where to find things like Qt plugins. Have you done a 'make install' on your Qt build? Tried QT_PLUGIN_PAT

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 15:11, nick wrote: Probably a silly question, but must I rebuild wsjtx-2.0.0 from scratch with Qt 5.9.7 for it to run using Qt5.9.7? Hi Nick, I nearly missed you post, please start a new topic rather that replying to an unrelated message and changing the subject. There may be

Re: [wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:16 AM nick wrote: > Probably a silly question, but must I rebuild wsjtx-2.0.0 from scratch > with Qt 5.9.7 for it to run using Qt5.9.7? > Wish I could tell you what the problem is but I can tell you that I build WSJT-X for Fedora and it works fine with Qt 5.11.1. Thanks

[wsjt-devel] Qt Version

2019-01-04 Thread nick
/nick/Qt5.9.7/5.9.7/gcc_64/lib QMake version 3.1 Using Qt version 5.9.7 in /home/nick/Qt5.9.7/5.9.7/gcc_64/lib **starting wsjtx... [20190104 14:57:18.844 GMT F] This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "".

Re: [wsjt-devel] G1 0.65

2019-01-04 Thread n2lo
NOAA forecasters say there is a 65% chance of G1-classgeomagnetic storms on  Jan. 5th. That's when a stream of solar wind flowing from a large hole in the sun's atmosphere is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-deve

Re: [wsjt-devel] Use of 4-character qualifier in Tx 6 (more)

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Somerville
On 04/01/2019 10:36, Martin Davies G0HDB wrote: On 3 Jan 2019 at 22:11, Bill Somerville wrote: Hi Martin, as always with WSJT-X messages the actual message sent appears with a yellow background in the status bar while it is being transmitted. In this case you will see: <...> G0HDB IO81 which

Re: [wsjt-devel] Use of 4-character qualifier in Tx 6 (more)

2019-01-04 Thread Martin Davies G0HDB
On 3 Jan 2019 at 22:11, Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi Martin, > > as always with WSJT-X messages the actual message sent appears with a > yellow background in the status bar while it is being transmitted. In > this case you will see: > > <...> G0HDB IO81 > > which is exactly how it will be deco