Hi Jean Louis - 
I believe that the problem is fixed now.
Steve k9an

> On Aug 17, 2016, at 6:08 PM, Steven Franke <s.j.fra...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Jean Louis,
> I am aware of the problem. I think that this regression was introduced when 
> we did a wholesale switch from double to float in wsprd.c. I will fix this, 
> but it may have to wait til the weekend. 
> Regards,
> Steve k9an
> 
>> On Aug 17, 2016, at 5:48 PM, f5djl <newsl...@f5djl.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bill 
>> 
>> Totally agree with your analysis but I have so far failed to identify in 
>> wsprd.c  where to make the change ! It must be obvious and I am sure it is 
>> fixable specially as in 1.6  it was ok according to my tests.  I will do a 
>> compare tomorrow or I am sure Steve will point me to the obvious ! 
>> 
>> Best regards 
>> 
>> Jean  Louis  F5DJL 
>> 
>> De : Bill Somerville [mailto:g4...@classdesign.com] 
>> Envoyé : jeudi 18 août 2016 00:35
>> À : wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Objet : Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-2 Question about difference of reported 
>> frequencies between version 1.6 and 1.7
>> 
>> On 17/08/2016 23:28, f5djl wrote:
>>> Clearly from the list below of  RX reported frequency , they are suspicious 
>>>  from 10  m to 23 cm : ie 1296.501465  is reported instead of the expected 
>>> 1296.501500 .
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1296.501465   
>>> 
>> Hi Jean Louis & all,
>> 
>> that error is within the bounds of a single precision floating point 
>> representation discrepancy. The main window UI code and rig control use a 64 
>> bit unsigned integer to represent frequencies to 1Hz resolution. In the 
>> codecs and a few other places where calculations are done on frequencies 
>> single precision floating point variables are used. In this case there seems 
>> to be a case for either double precision or switching to 64-bit unsigned 
>> intergers.
>> 
>> 73
>> Bill
>> G4WJS.
>> 
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