Hi Pat,
understood, but we have to draw the line somewhere on expected skills of
the user otherwise we would have to start each piece of documentation
with a huge list of references about setting up and operating an Amateur
Radio station. We set the bar fairly high because we are a small team
and feel our limited time and skills are best spent on the core
functionality, this seems to be working out reasonably well so far
since, despite the few poor signals and occasional poor operating
practice, many thousands of digital QSOs are being completed every day
across most bands using WSJT-X.
In the battle to get the "new one" in the log there will be problems but
given top quality DXpedition operators and hopefully a tool that
maximizes QSO rates, the bulk of those using FT8 DXpedition mode as
Hounds will do the right thing. In my experience, most of the bad things
that happen in pileups happen when the rate is low, often because the
Fox is weak due to poor propagation. At least with FT8 we offer a mode
that beats all other commonly used modes, to date, for DXpedition QSOs
in ultimate sensitivity.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 01/06/2018 18:05, patrick hamel wrote:
The existing manual requires some thinking and digital experience (setting
levels etc...).
The problem I see coming is that the voice operator who wants the QSO with "xxx"
(and is afraid that the weather will stop the expedition before the big-guns
are done
so he can get through) will remember something about "FT8" he heard about and
dive in.
I said I was not a good author.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Somerville"<g4...@classdesign.com>
To:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 11:51:48 AM
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem mitigation info request
On 01/06/2018 17:40, patrick hamel wrote:
This manual is probably a job for someone younger and better than
myself, but you are all developing code and it probably won't get done
unless I do "something".
Hi Pat,
what's wrong with the existing manual?
Quoted from the WSJT-X release announcement:
"As we have stated before, FT8 DXpedition Mode should be used only in
rare-entity circumstances in which sustained QSO rates well above
100/hour are expected. Detailed instructions for FT8 DXpedition Mode can
found here:
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/FT8_DXpedition_Mode.pdf "
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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