Re: [wsjt-devel] 60 Hz + harmonics sidebands on FT8 signals? (Paul Kube)

2019-08-14 Thread Paul Randall
Jim, your recommendation that all shack equipment uses a single source and green wire, like the high quality distribution illustrated in your PDF is spot on, thank you. I guess weather in the UK is pretty benign, although we do have our moments. I remember working in Poland; in February I was su

[wsjt-devel] WW Digi Contest Practices Friday

2019-08-14 Thread Ed Muns
Two one-hour practices again this Friday: Friday 16 August 19-20 UTC (EU evening) Friday 16 August) 23-00 UTC (NA evening) [NOTE THIS 2nd SESSION IS 2 HOURS EARLIER THAN THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE DUE TO SARTG RTTY CONTEST STARTING AT 00 UTC.] Use the

Re: [wsjt-devel] Decoding issues

2019-08-14 Thread David Gilbert
Hi, Steinar. Yes, I suspect the AGC due to other very strong stations in the passband could be limiting your ability to decode.  I don't know if you use some sort of DATA mode on your IC-7851 or not ... I think that usually minimizes AGC action.  If you are using SSB mode, AGC could certainly

Re: [wsjt-devel] Decoding issues

2019-08-14 Thread Steinar Fremme via wsjt-devel
Thank you Dave ! Well, . I live remote from any local noice - If I tune right outside the FT8 frequency I have nothing at all on my S meter . I can have a SSB QSO with stations not even lifting my S meter at all. The IC-7851 have a grate receiver But what it might be - is that - like just now

Re: [wsjt-devel] 60 Hz + harmonics sidebands on FT8 signals? (Paul Kube)

2019-08-14 Thread Jim Brown
I would certainly hope that you would want it for your personal safety, and for the non-destruction of your home and your equipment! It also happens that proper bonding of equipment, and obtaining power for all interconnected equipment from outlets that share the same green wire, minimizes hum,

Re: [wsjt-devel] Decoding issues

2019-08-14 Thread David Gilbert
Greetings Steinar. It seems to me that both of your issues could be caused by a high local noise level at your end.  Let's look at the second issue first. WSJT-X doesn't report the absolute signal strength ... it reports the signal strength relative to a (if I remember correctly) 2.5 KHz ba

[wsjt-devel] Multi-rate instead of multi-tone

2019-08-14 Thread David Jaffe
I watched Ed’s talk anout the WW digi contest. I had the following thought, which may be naive. I’m new to the list so maybe this has already been suggested and rejected , but here goes I understand why we don’t want numerous contesters doing F/H. But It occurs to me that another way to ma

Re: [wsjt-devel] Decoding issues

2019-08-14 Thread Claude Frantz
On 8/14/19 2:23 PM, Steinar Fremme via wsjt-devel wrote: Hi Steinar & all, When a station is calling me - I do reply by ex. Foo bar -14 for example 5 times - and nothing happens - I just click CQ again and the first message is a reply from the calling station by R-02 It seems to me that the de

[wsjt-devel] Decoding issues

2019-08-14 Thread Steinar Fremme via wsjt-devel
Hello all! Sorry if this issue has ben taken up before, but after looking into old messages - I don’t find any I have used WSJT-X on my Mac now for 6 months and logged more than 5000 FT8 entries in my logbook by it. But there is one thing I’m not able to find out why happening . When a statio

Re: [wsjt-devel] 60 Hz + harmonics sidebands on FT8 signals? (Paul Kube)

2019-08-14 Thread Paul Randall
Jim There is no requirement for lightning protection in all buildings in the UK although there are laws which govern businesses separately. As a result, the lightning protection in the average domestic UK home approximates to “none at all”, as Douglas Adams would say. Even with the open invita