Well, my WSJTx receives 24/7 and fully automatically sends all received stations to PSK-reporter...
I know there is a difference... but I don‘t understand all the fuss. Bots are easily recognizable. So just ignore them or use them to your advantage. 73‘s Georg NZ1C/DJ6GI > Am 01.04.2019 um 08:58 schrieb Neil Zampella <[email protected]>: > > Hi Wolfgang, > > glad to hear your view from across the pond, however, in the US any sort of > 'autobot' is illegal as these are not operating as beacons, but as stations > with 2 way communications. You have to have a human behind the rig/monitor > to control the station here. > > I may have conflated the eBay posting with the QRZ posting, but with them > popping up (so to speak) within days of one another it seemed to be a bit > more than just a coincidence, although it turns out it was. > > 73s, > > Neil, KN3ILZ > >> On 4/1/2019 3:40 AM, Wolfgang wrote: >> Hello Neil, >> >> you mix up your personal view of the scenario! >> >> - long time ago there was a Ham in Greece, made some robot add-ons with >> a keyboard macro language and after revealing his activities he was blocked >> by the WSJT-X team in the source code ;-) The case can be found in the >> [wsjt-devel] email archive. >> >> - the one on ebay is (was) written in a macro language (most probably >> 'AutoHotkey') and compiled into binaries. This guy inserts the buyers call >> sign into the macro-code to prevent sharing the software, but the seller >> stayed >> anonymous. This was an add-on, or external software, simulates key strokes >> etc. without any change in the source code or binaries of WSJT-X at all. >> Apparently the person wanted to make money with his external add-on >> software. >> Questionable software, but not illegal in some contries. Offer has been >> removed >> in ebay listings. Bad luck, business model lasted short ;-) >> >> - SQ9FVE modified the source code and added some interresting functions plus >> the optional robot function and a change of the GUI in WSJT-X. He published >> the binaries in the QRZ.COM forum for free. This was clearly a breach of >> GPL, >> because he did not publish the source code and mentioned originators of the >> source etc. etc. Download link has been removed. >> >> Looks like 'a storm in a glass of water' right now... >> >> There is a huge number of WSJT-X users with a very wide spectrum of >> personalities >> around the globe. Right now, this local monday morning in Europe, >> pskreporter.info >> lists the impressive number of 519.066 FT8 counts over the last two hours >> :-) >> >> So, some have fear of clones, some want to run their robots. But those are >> only >> a few of them. Sooner or later all this will be history. >> >> 73's de OE1MWW >> Wolfgang >> >> Monday, April 1, 2019, 2:51:59 AM, you wrote: >> >> >> There was some 'rage' Joe .. but those people were few and far between, and >> after a few days they were recognized, and the callsign was passed around as >> a 'bot' and ignored by many. >> >> However, now you have someone who is modifying the code to do this and, >> according to the eBay post will 'personalize' the code with your callsign, >> then sell you the compiled program. >> >> Different scenario !! >> >> Neil, KN3ILZ >> >> >> Virenfrei. www.avast.com > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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