[wsjt-devel] Bug Report: Four Letter Suffix in WSPR

2020-06-19 Thread Onno Benschop
Today I attempted to TX using WSPR and learned that my callsign (VK6FLAB) which I've held for nearly a decade isn't considered a "standard" callsign - this format was introduced in 2005. According to the ITU[1], my callsign is a perfectly legal callsign (and has been since 2003) (*emphasis* mine):

Re: [wsjt-devel] Bug Report: Four Letter Suffix in WSPR

2020-06-19 Thread Matt VK3FDLL
Hi Onno, I was enquiring about this in February this year too - https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/mailman/message/36929030/ > With various tests, I can hear my WSPR transmissions away from my station and WSJT-X can even decode my transmissions. However the decoding only occurs on transmissions where

Re: [wsjt-devel] Bug Report: Four Letter Suffix in WSPR

2020-06-19 Thread Frode Igland
Onno, There is nothing wrong with your call sign of four characters in the suffix. It is just too long to fit within the restrictions of WSJT-X if you want to use WSJT-X in the standard way. Mind you, you can still use WSJT-X, just not in the standard way. WSJT-X was never created to work smoothl

Re: [wsjt-devel] Bug Report: Four Letter Suffix in WSPR

2020-06-19 Thread Onno Benschop
Frankly that makes no sense. All the JT modes have evolved over time. Even WSPR has evolved. Compound callsigns were introduced with WSPR 2.00 (r1714) Nov 19, 2009 - http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/WSPR_Changelog.TXT Just because it wasn't designed with a four character suffix callsign i

Re: [wsjt-devel] Bug Report: Four Letter Suffix in WSPR

2020-06-19 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Onno, On 6/19/2020 3:53 PM, Onno Benschop VK6FLAB wrote: Frankly that makes no sense. All the JT modes have evolved over time. Even WSPR has evolved. Compound callsigns were introduced with WSPR 2.00 (r1714) Nov 19, 2009 - http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/WSPR_Changelog.TXT Just