On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 15:09:55 -0700 Jim Brown via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Joe, I have great respect for you and the team that has developed > your software, and have long advocated for and promoted its use. But > you're still missing the major point of my criticism, which is that > coordination of these digital watering holes was done WITHOUT > adequate coordination, both internationally AND with significant > input from existing users of the spectrum in question. How would you propose that these issues are addressed now Jim? I'm in no way knowledgeable enough to know where to start but the thing that comes out from what you've said is the sheer complexity and timescale for getting changes made, perhaps the problem now is that the horse has bolted and that catching it and returning it to the stable is going to be a difficult job. There may be more than one horse. Changing the default frequencies in WSJT-X is fairly simple, but the issue there is that the current ones are already in the published bandplans and everyone uses them so they're not going away. There is also the fact that not every country mandates use of bandplans, enforcement will therefore be a problem. One aspect of new modes that causes some problems is that they are not recognised to start with, no one knows what they are and it's then assumed that it is unregulated or pirate activity and people step on the transmissions to try and get them to go away. Using another animal metaphor, there is a chicken and egg problem here when a new mode arrives, it ends up wherever it gets the least hassle and the most traction in frequency terms. I don't have the answer and I'm not active enough on air to really grasp all that you say but I think that if you want to effect change then it will have to be by finding the right path to determine a way forward that works for as many people as possible. I'm also a mere whippersnapper with only 46 years since I was licensed, so what do I know ;-) -- Brian G8SEZ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
