Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestions for the UI

2017-03-09 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
: > HI Edson, > > some comments in line below. > > On 09/03/2017 16:54, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > >1. The band selector can go up to the menu before the mode menu. > > This will be difficult, on Mac and some Linux Desktops the menu is not > rendered by Qt and

[wsjt-devel] Suggestions for the UI

2017-03-09 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
I have a few suggestions for polishing the lower part of the UI. I will enumerate them so that we can discuss each separately. I can implement the ones that Joe and the group give a thumbs up. 1. The band selector can go up to the menu before the mode menu. 2. The rig status light can be tu

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-06 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
t; > de Mike W9MDB > > > -------------- > *From:* Edson W. R. Pereira > *To:* WSJT software development > *Sent:* Monday, March 6, 2017 6:14 PM > *Subject:* Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch > > > Hi Joe, > > It looks very good here. But this is only a subjective opinio

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-06 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Keith, The audio codec used int he FT-991 is a Burr Brown (Texas Instruments) PCM2903B. The PCM290x chips suffers from a spur at every one kHz when the input level is low. I have built a few home made audio interfaces with these chips and all of them suffer from this spur. The only way to mitig

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-06 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
sion 7599 uses QColor(85,170,85) for "normal" and QColor(232,81,0) > (a dark orange) aof "too low". > > I think the dark orange is an improvement. Not so sure about the > gray-green, but perhaps others will like it ?? > > -- Joe > > On 3/

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-06 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Joe, I've compiled the SVN head and am using it. The level meter color looks good, but it may be a little better if the green could be a little darker to have better contrast with the widget grey background. Can you try a QColor(85,170,85) and see if it looks ok for you? I agree with Keith's c

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-03 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
nt dynamic range. The best soundcard was, at the time, the Delta 44. It has almost no controls. 73, Edson PY2SDR On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 03/03/2017 19:17, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > Also, some soundcards have no hardware fader control (the best

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-03 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Joe, I entirely agree! 73, Edson PY2SDR On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Joe Taylor wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Reasonable suggestion... though I suspect many users would have the > consternation you mention, when we alter a control setting they thought > they had control over. > > As for your las

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-03 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Bill, The concern I have is if the control of the OS fader would be OS agnostic. Also, some multi input/output soundcards have a collection of controls -- some independent some not. Also, some soundcards have no hardware fader control (the best ones). The way WXJT-X works today seems quite ade

Re: [wsjt-devel] Cumulative patch

2017-03-03 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe and Mike, Since I was the one who implemented the level meter, I have a suggestion: Please don't make the level meter change colors depending of the dB level. It makes it rather difficult to read for those of us with not so good eyes. It is perhaps better to change the color of the text

Re: [wsjt-devel] Default WSPR frequency on 60 m

2017-02-14 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Joe, 60m is a worldwide mess. Here in Brazil the regulators are about to authorize the segment 5351.6 kHz to 5366.5 kHz. I think eventually we could implement a one-band frequency hopping feature for multiple receive windows and one transmit window on 60m. 73, Edson PY2SDR On Tue, Feb 14, 2017

Re: [wsjt-devel] FreqCal Mode

2017-01-10 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello everyone: I got across this paper some time ago. The algorithm suggested could perhaps be applied to FreqCal. https://mgasior.web.cern.ch/mgasior/pap/FFT_resol_note.pdf 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temo

Re: [wsjt-devel] Fwd: Window repaint issue on wsjt-x v1.7.0

2016-12-28 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
lity to do amazing things if we work together. > - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se > trabalharmos juntos. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Edson W. R. Pereira > Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:17 PM > Subject: Window repaint issue o

[wsjt-devel] Fwd: Window repaint issue on wsjt-x v1.7.0

2016-12-27 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
armos juntos. -- Forwarded message -- From: Edson W. R. Pereira Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:17 PM Subject: Window repaint issue on wsjt-x v1.7.0 To: WSJT Hello everyone, I am observing some strange repaint issue with v1.7.0 (r7405) on Windows 7. If I resize the main window, so

[wsjt-devel] Window repaint issue on wsjt-x v1.7.0

2016-12-22 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello everyone, I am observing some strange repaint issue with v1.7.0 (r7405) on Windows 7. If I resize the main window, some of the widgets in the main window become white or partially white (don't get repainted correctly). The issue only happens with vertical sizes above around 770 pixels. With

Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows build issue

2016-10-17 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
led as it's only adds a minute or two, which is > insignificant for those purposes. > > 73's > Greg, KI7MT > > On 10/16/2016 12:14 PM, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > > > Thank you, Greg! The enable-rcfg and enable-clean did resolve the issue. > > >

Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows build issue

2016-10-16 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
> > enable-separate > build-wsjtx rinstall > > > If both the methods above fail, then I would start to suspect the build > environment or the box is somehow contributing to the problem. I doubt > the WSJT-X source code is the issue or others would be reporting similar > issue

[wsjt-devel] Windows build issue

2016-10-16 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
While trying to compile the svn head today, I've got some missing references: [...] Linking CXX executable jt65.exe [ 87%] Built target jt65code libwsjt_fort.a(jt65_decode.f90.obj):jt65_decode.f90:(.text+0x30c1): undefined re ference to `qra64a_' libwsjt_fort.a(sync65.f90.obj):sync65.f90:(.text+0x

Re: [wsjt-devel] Random wide graph artifacts?

2016-06-20 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
I am running r6782 here and so far no issues observed. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmos juntos. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Bill Somerville wrote:

Re: [wsjt-devel] [wsjtgroup] JTSDK Win32 v2.0.4-1 Upgrade Available - (minor update)

2016-04-09 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
On Win 7 32 bits, after update/upgrade, the JTSDK-QT window closes immediately after started. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the JTSDK environment and the issue persists (after update/upgrade). Has anyone experienced this? 73, Edson PY2SDR > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Greg Beam ki7m...@gm

Re: [wsjt-devel] Raspberry PI

2016-01-15 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
, Richard Bown wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:23:48 -0200 > "Edson W. R. Pereira" wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Richard Bown > wrote: > > > > > > > > You can feed a SDR with just an single audio feed and you will see the > &

Re: [wsjt-devel] Raspberry PI

2016-01-15 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Richard Bown wrote: > > You can feed a SDR with just an single audio feed and you will see the > local ocillator and a > positive spectrum on the right and a negative on the left, using a I&Q > input allows you to remove > the unwanted sideband , ie the negative

Re: [wsjt-devel] Raspberry PI

2016-01-15 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Nick, I am glad to see that sdr-shell is still useful and is still being used ten years after I first released it. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmo

Re: [wsjt-devel] Raspberry Pi

2016-01-13 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
I think the wsjt-x will run well on a R-Pi 2, but I am not sure it will run on a R-Pi 1 Compiling wsjt-x may take some effort though. I have Steve's wspr stand alone decoder (C implementation) running on a R-Pi 1 and it works very well. For JT65/JT9 and other QSO modes on small devices, I think th

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjtx 1.7.0 r6346 Hangs....

2016-01-06 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
:29, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > it fails saying that there is another instance already running. > > Hi Edson, > > that is not a failure, it is just a warning saying that the application > lock file exists, the message offers to delete the stale lock file and > cont

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjtx 1.7.0 r6346 Hangs....

2016-01-06 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Today a ham friend also reported that wspr freezes and crashes after a while in wsjt-x 1.6.0 r6263 on Win 7. On jt65/jt9 he finds no issue. If he kills wsjt-x and restarts, it fails saying that there is another instance already running. I will try getting more info. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We hum

Re: [wsjt-devel] Feature Request, JT9 to SNUS

2016-01-05 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Just thinking out loud... Another approach could be a three-tier system using the pskreporter site as a proxy and using Bill's suggestion about a JSON file with the registered flight callsigns. Since a bolloon flight needs to be registered with SNUS, the pskreporter site would fetch the JSON file

Re: [wsjt-devel] Feature Request, JT9 to SNUS

2016-01-05 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
I do some balloon experiments from time to time and am considering using JT9 on HF and also JT65 on VHF for telemetry. It would be nice to feed the telemetry data to spacenear. However, we would need to verify with them if it would be ok to feed non balloon data to their servers. The current implem

Re: [wsjt-devel] native pulseaudio removed?

2016-01-05 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Iban, Indeed, I may have misunderstood your original email. Please take a look at the Linrad implementation of IQ transfer over the network. It could be a solution for what you want and it could potentially be implemented in WSJT-X. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do

Re: [wsjt-devel] native pulseaudio removed?

2016-01-05 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Iban, Things are much easier when said than when they are done. Here is a suggestion: Get the source code for WSJT-X, implement an audio basedband transport mechanism over TCP/IP (or UDP/IP) and show us a working prototype. You are free to chose any hardware. We will be happy to include your code

Re: [wsjt-devel] native pulseaudio removed?

2016-01-05 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Iban, Pulseaudio support is part of Qt. There is no pulseaudio code in WSJT-X. Most likely your Qt instalation was not compiled with pulseaudio support or pulseaudio was not detected during compilation of the Qt libs. I agree with you 100% on the audio baseband IQ via network. There are alr

Re: [wsjt-devel] r6330 jt65 decoding performance

2016-01-01 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
ppy to send you an advance copy when it's > done. > -- Joe > > On 1/1/2016 1:33 PM, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > Joe and Frank, > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > For the last few days I have been monitoring the JT65, JT9 and WSPR > > a

Re: [wsjt-devel] r6330 jt65 decoding performance

2016-01-01 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Joe and Frank, Happy New Year! For the last few days I have been monitoring the JT65, JT9 and WSPR activity on 15m and am observing that the performance enhancements in the decoders are very impressive. Not only in speed, but also in sensitivity and ability to dig signals from the noise or in-ban

Re: [wsjt-devel] Signal Strength in v1.7.0

2015-12-22 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
rd_exchange > : > > "JT65 reports are constrained to lie in the range –30 to –1 dB, and > values are significantly compressed above about -10 dB. JT9 supports the > extended range –50 to +49 dB and assigns more reliable numbers to > relatively strong signals." > >

[wsjt-devel] Signal Strength in v1.7.0

2015-12-22 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello everyone, I have been monitoring using wsjt-x v1.7.0 r6286 and am noticing that the JT65 decoder is not showing signal strengths stronger than -1 dB. Even with very strong signals the decoder shows -1 dB. The JT9 decoder does show signal strengths above 0 dB. Has anyone noticed this? 73 an

Re: [wsjt-devel] Fortran Error

2015-12-17 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Compiled ok and running without any immediate apparent issues. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmos juntos. On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Bill Somerville

Re: [wsjt-devel] snd-aloop subdevices

2015-11-29 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Steve, What device names for the virtual devices do you see in wsjt-x? I suspect you are facing an old bug in Qt. Qt insists in not displaying the correct audio device names in Linux. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres hu

Re: [wsjt-devel] high sensitivity of decoder vs TRX AGC handling

2015-11-12 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Igor, I agree with your analysis of the AGC issue. I have tested a few HF transceivers that can have AGC turned off and all have issues with audio distortion. As you have mentioned, using the attenuator alleviates the AGC problem a little, but decreases the sensitivity of the receiver -- wit

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR decoder: Jelinek vs Fano

2015-07-31 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe, Steve, and all, With the experiments I have been doing with WSPR on the Raspberry-Pi, I have implemented a simple spot feeder to wsprnet and have been thinking about adding a mechanism to check if a spot just received is in the ALL_WSPR.TXT before sending the spot to wsprnet. This would

Re: [wsjt-devel] Sourceforge SVN repository is down

2015-07-24 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Interesting and rather strange that they were trying to put web services up before the repositories. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmos juntos. On Fri, Jul

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-26 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Steve and Joe, Just started running wsprd_exp on my Raspberry Pi. Compilation went clean and I am decoding spots. Over the weekend I will do some more tests with some recorded wspr audio files. The recent improvements on wsprd are simply remarkable. The techniques employed are novel and would mak

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-26 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Steve, Can you confirm that this is the right path for wsprd_ext source? https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjt/HEAD/tree/branches/wsjtx/lib/wsprd/ I will compile it on the R-Pi and run some tests. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work togethe

Re: [wsjt-devel] Displayed fonts

2015-06-10 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Joe, Fonts across different platforms is a major source of headaches in making software portable. Even fonts of the same family can vary across operating systems. But it is possible. The problem you are seeing is likely to be due to Qt not finding the chosen font, trying to search for "something"

[wsjt-devel] Refactoring of mainwindow.cpp

2015-06-02 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe and everyone, Recently I have been experimenting with the new C implementation of the WSPR decoder on a Raspberry Pi SBC and am getting excellent results in terms of stability and performance. I am now implementing transmitting the code for transmission and for monitoring/controlling the

Re: [wsjt-devel] Dial calibration errors

2015-05-18 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
perhaps that's all you need. > > Mike W9MDB > > > > *From:* Edson W. R. Pereira [mailto:ewpere...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2015 12:14 PM > *To:* WSJT software development > *Subject:* Re: [wsjt-devel] Dial calibration errors > > > > > &g

Re: [wsjt-devel] Dial calibration errors

2015-05-18 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe, I just checked some of the common received spots between my station and Steve's on 15m and I am 9 Hz off (down). This makes me think that having a standard station in WSPR like Steve's could allow an automatic calibration by performing a query on the wsprnet database for our station and

Re: [wsjt-devel] Dial calibration errors

2015-05-13 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hi Joe, Would it add too much complexity to have the frequency error correction in the audio base band of the decoders? This would prevent having to re-tune the rig and would also allow crystal controlled transceivers to also have frequency error correction. 73, Edson PY2SDR --- - We humans have

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR in WSJT-X

2015-04-22 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe, It would be quite nice to have WSPR integrated in WSJT-X. However, I think we should try to preserve modularity as much as possible (high cohesion and low coupling in Object Oriented Programming semantics). Separating the GUI from the audio threads, rig control and the various decoders.

Re: [wsjt-devel] Low cost WSJT transceiver

2015-02-19 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Bill, --- - We humans have the capability to do amazing things if we work together. - Nós seres humanos temos a capacidade de fazer coisas incríveis se trabalharmos juntos. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > > I would like insert some code on WSJT-X to interface i

[wsjt-devel] Low cost WSJT transceiver

2015-02-19 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe and everyone, For the last few weeks I have been usning WSJT-X with SDRSharp and an RTL-SDR dongle (using the R820T chip with the new librtlsdr) on 21, 24, and 28 MHz. The performance is quite respectable. I am now working on designing a simple 5 Watts companion transmitter for JT65 and

Re: [wsjt-devel] [wsjtgroup] 80 m frequency for JT65 and JT9

2014-11-13 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Joe, The IARU has recently released new bandplans and a lot of though has been put into them in order to attempt consolidation between all three regions as much as possible. I think it would be good for us if the JT modes activity would happen in the proposed segments. Besides the issue on 8

Re: [wsjt-devel] Remote Control

2014-04-23 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Peter, It is, in theory, possible to use the JT65 or JT9 engine in WSJT-X with a different GUI or application. However, for the application you describe, I am not sure JT65 or JT9 would be a good mode for adding some sort of ARQ protocol due to the limitations of the message length. Have you

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Forewarning of some build changes.

2014-04-02 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 02/04/2014 20:10, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > > Bill, Greg, > > Hi Edson, > > > The dependency on a custom install of Hamlib could pose as a problem for > many. Including testers. The Linux situation is also rath

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Forewarning of some build changes.

2014-04-02 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Bill, Greg, The dependency on a custom install of Hamlib could pose as a problem for many. Including testers. The Linux situation is also rather bad. To make things worse, I don't foresee the changes in Hamlib making its way to a public release any time soon. In the past, it took quite some time t

Re: [wsjt-devel] Performance and application structure.

2014-04-01 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Bill, Joe, et al, Bill, I think your suggestion for a callback function would be very good. It would simplify things. Putting the decoder on a lib is also very good. This brings back an idea I have been thinking about recently: The possibility of detaching the DSP and audio engine from the G

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X qmake builds.

2014-03-30 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
win32 { system(...) } macx { system(...) } unix { system(...) } On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 31/03/2014 02:56, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > > Bill, > > Hi Edson, > > > Have you tried qmake system() funcion? > >

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X qmake builds.

2014-03-30 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Bill, Have you tried qmake system() funcion? 73, -- Edson On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been struggling to find a way to get the CMake build and the > qmake build to coexist without success so far. > > The problem is a file that the CMAke build

Re: [wsjt-devel] ToDo, CMake, displayed text

2014-03-30 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Bill, With the structure you suggest, would it be possible for a developer work on only one of the products without having to check out and build all products during development? 73, -- Edson PY2SDR On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 30/03/2014 15:23, Joe Taylor wr

Re: [wsjt-devel] Changing QTextBrowsers from html to plain text

2014-03-30 Thread Edson W. R. Pereira
Hello Murray, I was the one that implemented the current rendering. It is probably by no means the best way to do it. It was an attempt to have pre-formatted text displayed. Some comments below. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Murray Curtis wrote: > Hi > > Now that we have a proper GUI for se