Here is my up vote on Bill's and Dan response. Sam W2JDB
  -----Original Message-----
From: Dan Malcolm <k4...@outlook.com>
To: 'WSJT software development' <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tue, Jan 22, 2019 8:19 am
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Possible change to UDP interface - set TX audio offset

Just had to but in, in support of what Bill has said.  The WSJT-X development 
team has done us all a great service in improving WSJT-X.  The automation that 
accompanies FT8 are a godsend for that relatively fast paced protocol.  
However, there can be too much of a good thing.  I participate in this hobby 
because I enjoy it.  That means I need to participate, not set up an auto-QSO 
system that will perform and log QSO's even when I'm sleeping.  I think the 
developers have hit on just the right amount of automation/user participation 
for FT8.

Just my $0.02 worth.  73 

__________
Dan – K4SHQ

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Somerville [mailto:g4...@classdesign.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 6:28 AM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Possible change to UDP interface - set TX audio offset

On 22/01/2019 11:07, Mike Chamberlain wrote:
> If ‘Hold TX Frequency’ is checked, to avoid interference it is 
> necessary to check that the transmit offset frequency last used by my 
> station is still clear in the period that I wish to use it – that 
> requires bringing WSJT-X back into focus and a visual inspection, 
> which is time consuming.

Hi Mike,

the final part of  your point above makes it hard to justify such a change. The 
WSJT-X UDP protocol was never intended to be a remote control interface to 
WSJT-X and if it is changed such that WSJT-X can remain minimized for all or 
part of a QSO then I think that is beyond the scope of the intended use. That 
combined with many thousands of QSOs having been initiated using the UDP Reply 
message by JTAlert and other software users yet yours is the first request for 
a Tx offset setting facility. There is also another objection in that operators 
must be aware of users of other modes that might suffer QRM from a poor choice 
of Tx offset, an external application does not see or analyse the waterfall 
display other than by the information provided in decoded messages. There is no 
substitute for having an eye on the waterfall display to avoid any deliberate 
QRM to other users.

73
Bill
G4WJS.



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