Re: Bill Somerville > this change is deliberate. Prior versions favour strong stations calling at > the lowest audio offset, we think it is better to randomize the frequency > order to give all stations more equal weighting. This is particularly in > respect of the "Call 1st" feature. There is also another factor, the latest > FT8 decoder makes up to three attempts at decoding, each doing up to three > passes. Each attempt subtracts signals from prior attempts to reveal masked > signals. There is no sorting or randomizing across the attempts, the > overriding priority being to print he decodes as soon as possible after they > are discovered.
Well that still favors the stronger stations. Was "calling at lower offset" something people were really rushing for, or did that have any bias towards them in contests or crowded bands? What I wanted sometimes was a "favor callers *not* on my tx frequency". (But that's probably an unrelated thing to this change.) Another plus of the old ordering was that you could see the three passes and say "hey look it decoded this one because it subtracted a stronger signal first". The new ordering seems to be pretty messy instead. Christoph _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
