Re: [wsjt-devel] FFTW3 Wisdom

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill and all, > 1) What is the purpose of f77_wisdom.f90 and wisdom.c? I ask because > they seem to duplicate functionality that is already available directly > from the FFTW3 library in both C and Fortran form via the fftw3.h and > fftw3f.f03 include files. File fftw3f.f03 is apparently fairl

Re: [wsjt-devel] Decoding problems

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Taylor
On 11/21/2014 12:34 AM, Michael Black wrote: > I seem to be seeing some decoding problems recently. ... The JT65 signals you mention in your first two files are below the threshold for the JT65 decoder, around -24 dB. It's hardly surprising to see a weak signal in the waterfall that fails to d

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD for Mac

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, > It would be handy to know exactly what compiler/linker options you used > when building KVASD for the Mac? cc -c -arch i386 usleep.c cc -c -O2 -arch i386 asd1.c gfortran -o kvasd_1.12_mac32_10.7 -m32 kvasd.f90 asd1.o usleep.o cc -c -arch x86_64 usleep.c cc -c -O2 -arch x86_64 asd1.c g

Re: [wsjt-devel] FFTW3 Wisdom

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Taylor
John -- Not sure why you call these bugs? Does something on your system complain? For each string that Fortran passes as an argument, the string length is added as a "hidden argument" after the last visible argument. If the function being called is written in C, the hidden argument is visible

Re: [wsjt-devel] KVASD for Mac

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Taylor
Richard -- On 11/21/2014 11:59 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: > >> cc -c -arch i386 usleep.c >> cc -c -O2 -arch i386 asd1.c >> gfortran -o kvasd_1.12_mac32_10.7 -m32 kvasd.f90 asd1.o usleep.o >> >> cc -c -arc

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Action on F4 clear DX call.

2014-11-28 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill and all, I agree that responses to the "F4" command could use some further thought. Possibly some history will help. In the original WSJT program, including WSJT10, "F4" simply clears the entry fields for DX Call and DX Grid. There is a user option "F4 sets Tx6" on the Setup menu; if

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Action on F4 clear DX call.

2014-11-28 Thread Joe Taylor
Bill -- > ... How about leaving things as is > except that the newly generated CQ message gets displayed in the "Gen > msg" box (this is a clear defect as it stands now) and the "Gen msg" > radio button gets selected. The custom free text message can stay > unchanged. That way we don't have too m

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT on ARM low power boards, dev is ready

2014-12-08 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Alan, On 12/7/2014 2:44 AM, Alan VK2ZIW wrote: > On the Banana Pi, WSPR takes 2 mins 10 secs to "Decode". This is not a very useful statement. The decoder used in my WSPR code uses the sequential Fano algorithm, and execution times vary widely depending on input data. Signals well above th

[wsjt-devel] Back in touch

2014-12-08 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, Just a note to say that I've recovered (more or less) from the third and final weekend of the ARRL International EME Contest. Our multi-op effort finished with 341 QSOs and 167 multipliers on seven bands. (Am I getting too old to be playing these games?) Anyway, I'm once again readi

Re: [wsjt-devel] Crazy test

2014-12-16 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Alessandro and all, Compiler optimizations can be helpful when tuning code for good performance, but I am surprised that you see anything like a 2x improvement in decoding speed. The following table shows the results of a series of tests I made today for the decoder (the executable program

Re: [wsjt-devel] Crazy test

2014-12-17 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Alessandro, I replicated your tests as exactly as possible, modifying CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS and General_FFLAGS by the addition of "-mtune=native". Using WSJT-X and the "Shift+F6" command, the sequence of ten files (01.wav, 02,wav, ... 10.wav) was processed in 21 seconds with or without the additio

Re: [wsjt-devel] Crazy test

2014-12-17 Thread Joe Taylor
On 12/17/2014 10:22 AM, Michael Black wrote: > Have you got a batch file or such so perhaps I can try and replicate this > too? Replicating Alessandro's test requires a trivial change to the file CMakeLists.txt for WSJT-X. See his email for details. > It seems the current fftwf build from JTSDK

Re: [wsjt-devel] Crazy test

2014-12-17 Thread Joe Taylor
Mike -- > I didn't quite realize that jt9 didn't use the dll. What dll are you referring to? If you mean the FFTW library, jt9[.exe] definitely *does* use it. > What's the command line to run jt9? Type jt9 by itself at the command prompt, to get a brief "usage" message. For example: C:\JTSD

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR crashes, error starting rx thread

2014-12-17 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Alan, On 12/17/2014 6:19 PM, Alan VK2ZIW wrote: > WSPR is not much use if it only runs 10 or 11 hours. Many people run production releases of WSPR for many weeks, or even longer, without problems. It appears that you're running an executable you compiled yourself, using various tools and pa

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR crashes, error starting rx thread

2014-12-18 Thread Joe Taylor
Alan -- For several years already the SVN repository has included two lightweight WSPR tools: wspr0.exe wspr_nogui.py If running on minimal hardware is a high-priority goal for you (or for your balloonists, or ???) have you considered either of these? These programs have not received mu

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR crashes, error starting rx thread

2014-12-20 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Alan, VK2ZIW wrote: > ... > In the end, we all need a Low Power, Low Price way to run WSPR or WSJT. > That is repeatable and reliable. Several questions seem relevant to me: Who are "we all" (the many potential users) you are thinking of? What do they want to do, or would you like them to be

Re: [wsjt-devel] Crazy test understood

2014-12-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Sandro, Thanks for your latest report. Clearly the mystery has been solved! There is certainly no need to apologize for starting this thread. Your reports are always clear and informative. I learned something from the follow-ups that several of us did, and perhaps others did too. Best wi

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X v1.4.0-rc1 r4371

2015-01-05 Thread Joe Taylor
Keith -- In general, the best places for reporting such issues are the WSJT developers email list, wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, or the "wsjtgroup" email reflector, wsjtgr...@yahoogroups.com . Most CAT-control issues are being handled by Bill, G4WJS. You don't mention what radio you're ta

[wsjt-devel] WSPR 4 memory leak in Linux

2015-01-09 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, A long time ago -- 2008, I believe -- we fixed a pthreads-related memory leak that affected Linux (and probably other *nixes) but not Windows. It seems that the pthreads implementation in Windows is different in the way things are cleaned up (or not) after a thread exits. Anyway, at so

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR 4 memory leak in Linux

2015-01-09 Thread Joe Taylor
Thanks for the report, Peter -- very helpful! -- Joe, K1JT On 1/9/2015 2:02 PM, Peter Frenning [OZ1PIF] wrote: > After several hours of testing, it's completely stable, no evidence of a > memory leak can be found on my system.

Re: [wsjt-devel] Newbie problem

2015-01-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Chuck -- The error message suggests that the must have a very large number of audio devices -- more than 40, in fact. can this be true? Are you using a setup that creates a large number of "pseudo-devices"? -- Joe, K1JT On 1/22/2015 8:24 AM, Chuck Kelly wrote: > Hi all, > > First - m

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X r4920

2015-02-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, I was wrong to suggest that something is amiss with decoding a file read by the GUI from disk. The first decode will be slow, that's all -- because new "FFTW wisdom" must be accumulated because we're now using the multi-thread capable FFTW library. Note also that if we have success wi

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X r4920

2015-02-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, >> Note also that if we have success with using OpenMP elsewhere in the >> program, we'll need to use an FFTW library compiled with >> "--enable-openmp". > I am hoping that is not the case and that normal multi-threaded FFTW3 > can be used in parallel to OpenMP, otherwise other builders o

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, I have made further improvements to the speed of the decoders in WSJT-X, independently of any recourse to concurrent processing in machines with multiple CPUs. The changes involve 1. Making better choices for NFFT1 and NFFT2 (the lengths of forward and inverse FFTs in the JT9 downsamp

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-02 Thread Joe Taylor
I should have mentioned that if you're especially interested in snappy performance of the JT9 decoder, you may consider the penalty for using menu setting "Decode | Fast" to be unimportant. It will cost you nothing at all at the QSO frequency: that first decoding attempt is always done at "Dee

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-02 Thread Joe Taylor
1JT > > On Mon, 2/2/15, Joe Taylor wrote: > > Subject: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance > To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Monday, February 2, 2015, 11:45 AM > > Hi all, > > I have made further improvements to the sp

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-03 Thread Joe Taylor
Dear Colleagues, I have made some further performance tests of the decoders in WSJT-X. I copied a collection of 25 *.wav files into a clean directory. The files wererecorded in *JT9+JT65* mode during a busy period of activity on 20 meters. On average, around a dozen decodable signals are pres

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-03 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill and all, Perhaps you already tried jt9_omp in Linux, but I had not. I tried it today, and it seems to work OK, as is. Here are some timing tests made on my rather elderly 2-core Linux machine. This time all tests were made with the "Deepest" setting, ndepth=3, and all resulted in 17

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-03 Thread Joe Taylor
> sure about linking the libraries. > > The Qt5 Tool chain has winpthreads and gcc -v has --enable-libgomp so > the tool chain looks to be OpenMP capable. > > 73's > Greg, KI7MT > > > On 2/3/2015 1:06 PM, Joe Taylor wrote: >> Hi Bill and all, >> >

Re: [wsjt-devel] v4926 OpenMP

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill and all, Probably you already know this, but just in case... I ran WSJT-X over last night using jt9_omp.exe (renamed to jt9.exe, and dropped in as a replacement) under r4928. It ran OK for a while, producing interspersed decodes in both modes. The decoder then crashed, popping up th

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Claude, Thanks for your timing report. Your first test may have used the correct executables, too. To get a good test you must run a configuration at least twice. In the first run, the program accumulates "wisdom" about the best way to configure the FFT calculations. This wisdom is saved

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill and all, Tests here suggest that r4929 produces a Windows jt9_omp.exe that runs correctly. At least, it runs to completion on my sequence of 25 test files -- which r4928 does not. Timing results on a 4-core Win7 machine: Params jt9 jt9_omp -- -w 2 -m 1

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Decoder Performance

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
/2015 10:24 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 04/02/2015 15:21, Joe Taylor wrote: >> Hi Bill and all, > Hi Joe, > > >> Note that decoder.f90 now decodes the two modes in parallel sections >> *ONLY* if txmode is JT9. I will fix this. > Joe, I already have this in ha

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Using the latest decoder improvements in WSJT-X

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
On 2/4/2015 2:26 PM, Michael Black wrote: > Not sure we want more than 1 thread As I demonstrated and wrote here several hours ago: "When using OpenMP to run JT9 and JT65 decoders in parallel, we gain almost nothing by using multi-threading for the FFTW plans." I think this will remain true.

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Using the latest decoder improvements in WSJT-X

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, > Before completely discarding MT FFTW3 I would like to try something. Can > you give a brief rough summary of all the FFT sizes used by jt9? The file wisdom1.bat in .../wsjtx/lib shows the following FFT plans being used: rif672000 cif77175 cib77175 rif16384 rif884736 cib2048 rif8192 r

Re: [wsjt-devel] r4932

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Mike, The change was to replace "slope", a currently undefined, vestigial remnant of some old code, to "nflatten" -- the correct argument to pass to symspec. The variable "slope" was undefined in jt9.f90. Inside symspec, its value supposedly controlled whether the spectrum being computed

Re: [wsjt-devel] r4932

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, On 2/4/2015 4:49 PM, Michael Black wrote: > So does this also mean if you don't check the Flatten box that your decodes > would be slower since it does the flatten later if the GUi doesn't do it? No. And I realized after hitting "Send" that I was wrong to say the decodes would be differ

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X - Wide Graph: Spectral Display Enhancement Request

2015-02-05 Thread Joe Taylor
Paul -- Could you send me a screenshot or two, illustrating what you don't like about the present spectral display(s) ? -- Joe, K1JT On 2/4/2015 10:20 PM, Paul DU2/WA8UGN wrote: > Hello Developers: > > If not already on the "To Do" list, would you consider the following > suggested "imp

[wsjt-devel] Something broken

2015-02-05 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, Sorry to say, I seem to have broken something in the way double-click decodes are done. I'll look into it tomorrow. -- Joe, K1JT -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website,

Re: [wsjt-devel] Something broken

2015-02-06 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, I saw that behavior yesterday, too, but had trouble reproducing it. I will give it some attention now. -- Joe On 2/6/2015 10:52 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 05/02/2015 23:01, Joe Taylor wrote: >> Hi all, > Hi Joe, >> >> Sorry to say, I seem to have

Re: [wsjt-devel] Something broken

2015-02-06 Thread Joe Taylor
d takes several minutes. No doubt I could address this issue, but old dogs learn new tricks very slowly. -- Joe On 2/6/2015 11:11 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I saw that behavior yesterday, too, but had trouble reproducing it. I > will give it some attention now. >

Re: [wsjt-devel] Something broken

2015-02-06 Thread Joe Taylor
ally, what needs to be done; it's just that my fingers don't do all of it so automatically as with "the old way". :-) -- Joe On 2/6/2015 11:29 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > On 06/02/2015 16:18, Joe Taylor wrote: > Hi Joe, >> One helpful sign: I can rep

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X v1.5.0-devel r4955 Anomaly

2015-02-12 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Paul, Thanks for your report. On 2/12/2015 2:51 PM, Paul DU2/WA8UGN wrote: > Mode: JT9+JT > Decode: Deepest > Band: 10.138000 > Time: 1932 02-12-2105 > > Anomaly: Decoding of station calling CQ as being "New DXCC" but have QSO'ed > same station on 10.138000 three times prior. JTAlertX verifi

[wsjt-devel] Summary of Decoder Performance

2015-02-13 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, I have run an extensive series of tests of the JT9 and JT65 decoders in six different versions of WSJT-X. Each test involved reading and decoding an identical set of 10,682 *.wav files. The files were recorded on various bands from 160 m to 10 m. In these files the number of decodabl

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 1.5-Dev r4966 Font Issues ( Linux)

2015-02-16 Thread Joe Taylor
We dealt with this issue (at least I thought we did) about a year ago. See the message to wsjt-devel dated February 15, 2014, from NO3M -- copied below. -- Joe, K1JT Original Message Subject: [Wsjt-devel] Decoded text "Q" / 2DPixmap height Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 03:48

Re: [wsjt-devel] No decode on strong JT9 signal

2015-02-18 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Mike, Thanks for posting those troublesome wav files. As it happens, I have been busy looking at a number of similar examples of problematic files. More or less from the beginning, the JT9 decoder has failed without obvious good reason something like 1% of the time... and I'd like to under

Re: [wsjt-devel] Low cost WSJT transceiver

2015-02-19 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Edson, Interesting idea! I have no problem with your plan; certainly writing 85 symbol values to a file whenever WSJT-X wants to start a transmission will be otherwise harmless. -- Joe On 2/19/2015 8:11 AM, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > Hello Joe and everyone, > > For the last few w

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR frequency protection range in WSJTX

2015-02-20 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Claude, On 2/4/2015 9:23 AM, Claude Frantz wrote: > Up to now, I have never seen any beacon traffic in this yellow marked > area, but often JT65 traffic. Just now, I can see SM7OYP calling CQ on > my screen in the yellow range, but I cannot call him. And no beacon > traffic there. Something mu

Re: [wsjt-devel] decoding time slowing down in WSJT-x

2015-02-23 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Jay, Decoding speed (measured by the time the "blue background" stays on) is strongly dependent on the data being decoded. If you find significant changes over time for decoding *identical* data -- say, data in a recorded *.wav file -- I would take the report seriously enough to investigate

Re: [wsjt-devel] r4994

2015-02-27 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Mike and all, > So..in the test you did before on lots of wav files that showed JT9 getting > fewer decodes I assume this may fix that problem hopefully? Yes... but a full accounting with timing tests is still to come. -- Joe --

Re: [wsjt-devel] Summary of Decoder Performance

2015-02-28 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, Here's an updated table summarizing decoding results from the same set of 10,682 files that I used in tests of the decoders before. Columns labeled "JT9" and "JT65" give the number of decoded signals in each mode. "Time" is the time in seconds to process the full data set, as measured

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Generated messages /w compound calls

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, Thanks for tackling this question and offering what looks like a good solution. I hope it will shake out well in testing. -- Joe, K1JT -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Web

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Generated messages /w compound calls

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, Thanks for tackling this question and offering what looks like a good solution. I hope it will shake out well in testing. -- Joe, K1JT -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Web

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT10 issue enquiry.

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Well, it helps to know the actual error message. ## WSJT ver 10.0 r4285 Rev date 2014-09-09 AudioInput Output DeviceChans Chans 02 0 Microsoft Sound Mapper Input 12 0 Mic (RigBlas

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Generated messages /w compound calls

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, On 3/2/2015 5:45 PM, Bill Somerville wrote: > to anyone using the test version linked below. I would advise not using > it on air as there is a flaw in my proposal. > > The messages like: > > DE TI4/N0URE R-10 > > will not work because the report will not be collected at the far end :( N

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Generated messages /w compound calls

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Bill -- > The message is indeed a valid standard message but that is not the > issue. The issue is that current software will not extract the report > from a message that doesn't contain the DE call. Maybe we're arguing semantics. When you say "the report will not be collected at the far end" a

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Generated messages /w compound calls

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Bill -- > Agreed but the received report is only captured (automatically) if the > message contains the DE call sign i.e. if I decode: > > DE TI4/N0URE R-10 > > WSJT-X does not record that -10 report unless I manually enter it. Yes. I wasn't too worried about that; we do, after all, offer a chan

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Generated messages /w compound calls

2015-03-02 Thread Joe Taylor
Bill -- > Either way, I am making the required change so that WSJT-X will extract > a received report from a standard message containing only the QSO > partner call sign. This seems safe and proper to me. Sounds like the right thing to do. -- Joe

Re: [wsjt-devel] Summary of Decoder Performance

2015-03-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Once more, here's an updated table summarizing decoding results from the set of 10,682 files I've been using for tests of the JT9 and JT65 decoders in WSJT-X. Columns labeled "JT9" and "JT65" give the number of decoded signals in each mode. "Time" is the time in seconds to process the full data

[wsjt-devel] QtCreator problem

2015-03-07 Thread Joe Taylor
I'm temporarily stumped, and wonder if someone here can help. I'm working on some possible GUI enhancements for WSJT-X, using QtCreator as I have done before. With a form (say mainwindow.ui) open in the main designer window, I right-click on a widget -- more or less any widget -- and select "G

Re: [wsjt-devel] QtCreator problem

2015-03-07 Thread Joe Taylor
-- Joe On 3/7/2015 7:02 PM, Michael Black wrote: > Try this one change and see if it fixes it for you...worked for me. > > Add this declarartion to the private section in mainwindow.h > > private: >Ui::MainWindow *ui; > > > Mike W9MDB > > -----Origina

Re: [wsjt-devel] Patch for WSJT-X

2015-03-09 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Ton, Thanks for the suggested patch. It's a useful addition, and I have included it in my current working branch. (It may be a while before I do a merge into the main development branch, though.) -- 73, Joe, K1JT On 3/2/2015 5:10 AM, Ton PA0TBR wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT: Add 0.7 s to DT values for JT65 modes.

2015-03-10 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi John, I suggest you get in touch about this with Charlie, G3WDG, or Sam, G4DDK. Earlier today Charlie reported to me that GB3VHF was about 1.8 s late. I get DT = 0.0 +/- 0.1 on local computer-to-computer tests. -- Joe, K1JT On 3/10/2015 1:01 PM, John Nelson wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Pr

Re: [wsjt-devel] CMake error wsjtx on svn .gt. r5026

2015-03-11 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Alessandro and all, IW3RAB wrote: > I cannot find the file lib/wav12.f90 in any repository Of course you are welcome to build code from any branch in our repository. But please keep in mind that for an experimental branch such as "wsjtx_exp" there is no guarantee that any particular revisio

Re: [wsjt-devel] CQ 000

2015-03-11 Thread Joe Taylor
On 3/11/2015 12:04 PM, Michael Black wrote: > I'm seeing CQ 000 consistently right now from PA1FR on 10M. So, we need to know: 1. What software you're using. 2. What software he is using. 3. What message he thinks he is sending. -- Joe, K1JT -

Re: [wsjt-devel] CMake error wsjtx on svn .gt. r5026

2015-03-11 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Greg, On 3/11/2015 12:11 PM, KI7MT wrote: > I've been reading / following along with your work on the wsjtx_exp > bracnh, I dont understand allot of it, but it appears your adding > various modes from WSJT into WSJTX. Is the long term plan to port all > the VHF/UHF/EME modes from WSJT into WSJ

Re: [wsjt-devel] CQ 000

2015-03-11 Thread Joe Taylor
Thanks, Mike and John. I have seen some of those same calls with "CQ 000" , too. What we still need to know is what software those stations were using, and what message those guys thought they were sending. -- Joe, K1JT On 3/11/2015 2:49 PM, John Nelson wrote: > Mike and Joe, > > I see

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc4

2015-03-12 Thread Joe Taylor
The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce Release Candidate 4 for WSJT-X Version 1.4.0. Installation packages for Windows, Linux, and OS X can be downloaded from the WSJT web site: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html Release candidate 4 (wsjtx-1.4.0-rc4) is a highly cap

[wsjt-devel] Subroutine packmsg()

2015-03-12 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Beat, Recently users of WSJT-X have started seeing decoded messages of the form "CQ 000 K1ABC FN42". As far as I can tell, these messages arise because of a change you made in line 47 of a file "packmsg.f" if(msg(1:3).eq.'DX ') msg='CQ 000 '//msg(4:) I did not look further in your

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc4

2015-03-12 Thread Joe Taylor
are probably some minor documentation updates required, for > example a new setting on the Settings->General tab. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > On 12/03/2015 13:32, Joe Taylor wrote: >> The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce Release Candidate 4 >> for WSJ

Re: [wsjt-devel] [wsjtgroup] CQ 000

2015-03-12 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, On 3/10/2015 1:11 PM, jean raynaud f...@orange.fr [wsjtgroup] wrote: > Hello... Anyone can explain the meaning oF " cq 000 ..." ? I see this CQ > rather often. A brief follow-up on this perplexing problem. Thanks to Sandro, IW3RAB [who goes through all our source code with a fine-tooth

Re: [wsjt-devel] Introduction and question

2015-03-12 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Jim, Sorry to say, I don't have a good solution to suggest. Unless VAC can be configured to handle four audio channels as a single 4-channel device like the Delta44 sound card, I don't think it's going to work. In principle MAP65 could be modified to allow opening a pait of 2-channel audio

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjtx-1.4.0-rc4-Darwin Rig Control Error

2015-03-14 Thread Joe Taylor
Please report your problem to Bill, G4WJS, who has handled most of the CAT control issues. His email address is g4...@classdesign.com . -- 73, Joe, K1JT On 3/13/2015 5:34 PM, William Wuttke wrote: > When changing bands - Rig Split operation enabled - Yaesu FT-DX1200 - use > Hamlib FT-DX50

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: automatic processing of received messages enhancements

2015-03-15 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill and all, I haven't yet paid close attention to this thread, and have not yet tried the new code enhancements. But I want to share a potential concern about automating QSO procedures by too much. How much is "too much"? When I started work on WSJT in 2001 I decided to resist any tempta

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-X fails to upload successfully decoded spots

2015-03-18 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi John, Thanks for your message, and for your analysis of a problem in WSPR-X. You have no doubt noticed that WSPR-X has been neglected of late -- most of us have been busy with other programs in the WSJT group. So I'm delighted that you have spent some time with it! As for what to do with y

Re: [wsjt-devel] de WA7OEF Thanks for the add

2015-03-26 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Chuck, We'll be very happy to have your help with packaging of WSJT and its sister programs. It's too soon to be be thinking about packaging WSJT-X v1.6, though 00 it's an experimental branch; some ideas in it will no doubt survive, while others will not. We do hope to make v1.5 more wide

[wsjt-devel] RC 5 preparation

2015-03-26 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, Concerning a coming rc5: please look carefully again at the v1.4.0 User Guide and make notes on anything in it that you think needs updating, correction, or further improvement. In particular, consider things that have prompted recent requests for help -- and whether suitable responses

Re: [wsjt-devel] Best way to handle platform dependent widgets in WSPR-X?

2015-04-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Greg, > For those updating / building WSPR-X sources, the KVASD download routine > needs to be addressed as well, ... Actually it just needs to be removed. KVASD is not used by WSPR-X, and was never a part of it. -- Joe, K1JT

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-X fails to upload successfully decoded spots

2015-04-03 Thread Joe Taylor
n Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 04:41:58PM -0400, Joe Taylor wrote: >> Hi John, >> As for what to do with your changes: if you expect to have >> continuing interest in these things, we'd be happy to have you as a >> "official" member of the WSJT Development Group, with sv

Re: [wsjt-devel] Explanations on some files

2015-04-03 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Sandro, Responses from Greg and Bill have answered most of your questions, but I can add a few details that may be of interest to you and others. Probably you already understand the nature of my license to use Koetter and Vardy's patented algorithm for soft-decision decoding of Reed Solomon

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc5

2015-04-04 Thread Joe Taylor
The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce Release Candidate 5 for WSJT-X Version 1.4.0. Installation packages for Windows, Linux, and OS X can be downloaded from the WSJT web site: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html Release candidate 5 (wsjtx-1.4.0-rc5) is stable and r

[wsjt-devel] Fwd: [wsjtgroup] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc5

2015-04-04 Thread Joe Taylor
To: CC: WSJT software development The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce Release Candidate 5 for WSJT-X Version 1.4.0. Installation packages for Windows, Linux, and OS X can be downloaded from the WSJT web site: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html Release candidat

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc5

2015-04-04 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Andreas, DJ3EI wrote: >> A detailed log of program changes since v1.3 r3673 is available here: >> http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-1.4.0-rc5.log > > Regarding this particular file, I have found a few nits to pick: The file in question, wsjtx-1.4.0-rc5.log, is *not* a troff file.

Re: [wsjt-devel] Fwd: [wsjtgroup] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc5

2015-04-04 Thread Joe Taylor
VK4QG wrote: > The 'colors' tab under 'settings' is missing. In this current version > there is little difference in colour between 'worked before' and 'not > worked before'. You appear to be confusing the release candidate WSJT-X v1.4.0-rc5 with with the not-yet-released development branch vers

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Suggested User Guide Updates.

2015-04-05 Thread Joe Taylor
Bill -- FYI, I have replaces "-rc2" with "-rc5" everywhere in the online WSJT-X User Guide. These changes are not yet reflected in the doc sources on SourceForge. When I do so, I will simply remove "-rc2" everywhere. I have a few other minor updates on my "ToDo" list for the manual. If anyo

[wsjt-devel] WSPR-X changes

2015-04-05 Thread Joe Taylor
: Joe Taylor Date: 4/3/2015 9:03 AM To: "Edson W. R. Pereira" , "John C. Peterson" Thanks, Edson! John, I guess you can now commit all of your changes to the WSPR-X branch. -- 73, Joe, K1JT On 4/3/2015 8:41 AM, Edson W. R. Pereira wrote: > Hi Joe, > &

Re: [wsjt-devel] Fixes for WSPR-X committed to SVN

2015-04-06 Thread Joe Taylor
the rig control, band-hopping, or I/Q input capabilities of the older, Python-based WSPR version. I will forward to your further contributions, when you find the time! -- 73, Joe, K1JT On 4/6/2015 2:22 AM, John C. Peterson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2015 at 12:34:53PM -0400, Joe Tay

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Suggested User Guide Updates.

2015-04-06 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, An updated revision of the WSJT-X User Guide has been posted (temporarily) at http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-main-1.4.0.html I have removed all references to "-rc1" and "-rc2" that have been in the manual, and made a few other minor corrections. Unless someone lets me

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Suggested User Guide Updates.

2015-04-06 Thread Joe Taylor
ny serious issues > that cannot be worked around. I am awaiting feedback from two users as > to whether the suggested workarounds are OK for them. Assuming they > confirm, I will build GA kits based on RC5 within a day or so. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > On 06/04/2015 14:45, Joe

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Version 1.4.0-rc5

2015-04-06 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Andreas, DJ3EI wrote: >> The file in question, wsjtx-1.4.0-rc5.log, is *not* a troff file. > > Yes! I fully agree with you! > > The server should join our agreement. At this point, the server > still claims, to any browser fetching the file, it's serving > application/x-troff-man. That is a

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Suggested User Guide Updates.

2015-04-06 Thread Joe Taylor
Tnx John, I fixed it. -- Joe On 4/6/2015 1:22 PM, John Nelson wrote: > Hi Joe, > > wsjtx/source/install-mac.adoc has: > > * OS X 10.7 and later: {osx_107) > > but global/links.adoc has this: > > :osx_107: > http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-1.4.0-Darwin_10.7.dmg[wsjtx-1.4.0

[wsjt-devel] Policy decision on manuals

2015-04-07 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, We need to make a policy decision about how we store the source files for our User Guides. For WSJT-X the sources are currently found in these SourceForge directories: .../branches/doc/wsjtx/source .../branches/doc/wsjtx/images This system has worked well in most ways, but does not

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Suggested User Guide Updates.

2015-04-08 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Bill, On 4/8/2015 7:34 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > I need the final v1.4.0 manual in place on your server before I can > build the GA kits, this is because the build fetches the off line manual > from the same URL it uses for the on line link. > > So if we are agreed that we have a reasonable

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Version 1.4

2015-04-08 Thread Joe Taylor
The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce the release of WSJT-X Version 1.4. Installation packages for Windows, Linux, and OS X can be downloaded from the WSJT web site: http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html A detailed log of program changes since v1.3 r3673 is available h

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: Suggested User Guide Updates.

2015-04-08 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Tomáš, Thanks for your message. Perhaps a slightly more informative description of the JT65 tone frequencies could be put into the WSJT-X User Guide. The second sentence of the section from which you quote advises the interested user to read the full detailed description of the protocol i

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 1.6 Seg fault in plotter.cpp

2015-04-12 Thread Joe Taylor
Tnx John, will do! On 4/12/2015 1:03 PM, John Nelson wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I find that WSJT-X (v1.6 r 5210) crashes with a seg fault in plotter.cpp > > The problem seems to be that DrawOverlay gets called before > mainwindow::on_action_xxx calls are made. > > Each of these on_action routines cont

Re: [wsjt-devel] Jt65/9 auto select

2015-04-16 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Mike, On 4/16/2015 10:13 AM, Michael Black wrote: > Would it be a good idea to make the clicking on the waterfall select JT65/9 > based on the split bar? > > So if you click above it JT9 is auto-selected and below JT65 is selected? > Wouldn't that be the common case? Apparently you mean automa

Re: [wsjt-devel] Summary of wsprnet.org server processing times

2015-04-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi John, Many thanks for sharing your interesting results on processing time returned by the wsprnet.org server! Your recent work with WSPR-X has prodded me to think again about possible future developments of WSPR. I'm presently leaning toward exploring the possibility of including WSPR as a

[wsjt-devel] Fwd: [wsjtgroup] WSJT-X v1.5-rc1 (Release Candidate 1)

2015-04-22 Thread Joe Taylor
1 (Release Candidate 1) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:03:48 -0400 From: Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu [wsjtgroup] Reply-To: Joe Taylor To: WSJT Group The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce the availability of Release Candidate 1 for WSJT-X Version 1.5. Installation packages for Windows, Linux

[wsjt-devel] WSPR in WSJT-X

2015-04-22 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Claude, Richard, Greg, and all, KI7MT wrote: > FWIW, I think this is a good Idea. I addition to the Hamlib updates, I > would think the Qt Audio subsystem would also be of benefit. > > I like Python, but keeping the tool-chains and frameworks similar would > surely be a plus and may even draw m

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