On 11/29/2018 1:09 AM, Richard Lamont wrote:
The -rc* versions are release candidates, i.e. beta packages for
testing. People who use them are expected to report any anomalies they
find on the relevant mailing list.
If you don't want to test and report bugs, you should not be using (and
there is no point in you using) the -rc* packages.
Contributing to the development of FREE software that we use is a bad
thing? WSJT-X is a voluntary effort by a group of hams who are
proficient at programming. Simply by using the new software we make QSOs
with other hams who are also using it, we are contributing.
Since my earliest days in ham radio (I was 14) other hams taught me CW,
electronics, radio, and how to operate. One gave me my first rig,
another taught me the fundamentals of contesting. Ham radio has always
had a tradition of of individual hams contributing what they can based
on their capabilities. I've watched W6OAT do a wonderful job of warmly
mentoring a prospective ham at the GOTA station on Field Day. Testing
beta software is a contribution. I contribute by doing research on
technical issues that matter to hams and publishing it, FOR FREE.
Mamy of the folks who make the greatest contributions to ham radio don't
ask for money, but they really hope that others will do their part.
Among them are AC6LA, the author of great spreadsheets that run in Excel
to do tricks with antennas and transmission lines, AE6TY, who wrote the
wonderful SimsSmith software, AA6YQ, author of the wonderful DXLabs
suite that includes DXKeeper, and the team that produces the N1MM
contest logger. And there are the thousands of hams who contribute to
EmComm, to mentoring new hams, to teaching license classes, to helping
other hams with computers, antennas, and so on. This is a chance for all
of us to help out the WSJT-X team. All of this stuff is GREAT software,
and it's FREE. The least we can do is using their beta software!
73, Jim K9YC
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