Hi all ,

I believe these questions/remarks are more for Steve and Bill.  As part of
testing/implementation of WSPR on VHF with a group of french hams
(1HDI,2MM,6ABJ,6BYJ) we currently test v5700 with a variety of TRX and
interfaces , always in  non band-hopping mode .

My questions are related to  how is supposed to work the randomization of TX
slot process and how/when exactly is the TX  table recalculated  ? 

1/ For example if you start the application on  two machines carefully time
synchronized ( ntp sync < one second)  with a TX% at 20 % at a few seconds
interval but within same 2 mn slot,   is it expected that TX sequence will
be the same , ie the TX slots will be synchronous on the two machines  ? 

I had a quickly look at the code which I believe is  involved ie
create_tx_schedule (int pctx) and I saw  srand(time(0)) being used  , I
thought wrongly most probably that the intent was to randomize the table by
generating a seed based on  delta in seconds to reference 1970 ?  I must
admit , I did not fully understood the purpose of the series of if statement
on pctx and the process of filling of the tx[] array and I have some serious
doubt on the effect of the band Hoppng  .

2/ I understand that TX next or disable/enable TX have no impact on the
schedule, is my understanding correct ? 

3/ The table is calculated in next_tx_state function I believe at start of
application , then at the top of the hour ? BTW I saw a double TX
transmission at xx:58 and XX+1:00 today) 

Thanks for your patience to explain and educate, understanding  this
behavior is important to us in  a small network of VHF stations (<10) as we
are trying to minimize the chance to get two stations TX simultaneously and
then long period of simultaneous silence. So far I must admit  we got some
rather unexpected results as the machines are much more than expected
simultaneously transmitting/receiving when at same Tx percentage . 

Best regards 

 Jean Louis 


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