Given FT8’s growth, a built-in way to ask for a jump to an clear frequency, or channel, certainly seems like a good idea. However, a larger channel is what really seems to be needed. This could be accomplished (other mode user squawks not considered) by just setting the WSJTx, and radio, rx bandwidths higher. With my setup, I can work up to a 4500Hz FT8 channel. If more users were to use larger BW, it might be a significant congestion relief.
Though my rig can go to 9999Hz rx BW and WSJTx v2.4.0 set to 6000Hz, 4500kHz is all I can get - above that, decodes stop and the waterfall fills with noise. I wonder if the limit is due to my CPU speed (usage increases with BW and channel activity) or a WSJTx thing. Reports from others doing larger BW would be interesting. Al Pawlowski, K6AVP Los Osos, CA USA _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
