Instead of “Your clock is off” (which, to some, may mean “Your clock is turned off”) I suggest “Your clock is wrong” or better still the action-oriented “Check your clock”.
And the proposed 3 out of 5 decodes being more than half a second wrong risks triggering the message far too often when the band is busy, especially during events such as field day and DXpeditions when a greater proportion of ops are probably using temporary setups without atomic clock references. I think a statistical test would be more appropriate, although I’m not sure which one (ask a statistician!). Another approach would be simply to highlight DT values that are more than, say, 1 second wrong in the decode panes (e.g. with red or orange backgrounds for minus and plus DT values), and leave the ops to notice the slew of reds or oranges and figure out what’s going on. This has the advantage that, if we are reasonably sure of our own clocks, we might notice and maybe send a message to other stations whose DT values are highlighted. 73 Gary ZL2iFB From: Black Michael via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: 24 June 2019 00:27 To: WSJT Software Development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Black Michael <mdblac...@yahoo.com> Subject: [wsjt-devel] Field Day time problem I've seen about 2 dozen clubs doing Field Day where their clocks are off. We need to provide an indication in WSJT-X when clocks are off like this. With concurrence I can do a patch for this....my idea is this. At least 5 decodes where 60% or more > 0.5 seconds is an indication of bad timing. A message would be put in the Rx Frequency window "Your clock is off...see help". With appropriate references in the Help to search "your clock is off" and time solutions. This doesn't cover the case where their clock is way off as they won't see any decodes. The only solution for that would be doing a time query from a known source and I don't think we want to go that route. de Mike W9MDB
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