Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread Jim Shorney
Bravo! 73 -Jim NU0C On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:02:35 -0400 James Shaver wrote: > No CAT control with this old rig (picture attached) and it holds its own ;) > ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: [wsjt-devel] Program for blind ops needs 2 shortcuts

2019-04-25 Thread Rich Zwirko - K1HTV
Bill, Thanks for your reply and suggestion about using the Qt Accessibility interface. Sam, W2JDB, who has been working on the QLog (QuickLog) program says that he will get up to speed on its use. He released QLog Version 157 today for testing by our 5 visually impaired QLog beta testers. I'm lo

Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread James Shaver
No CAT control with this old rig (picture attached) and it holds its own ;) > On Apr 25, 2019, at 5:07 PM, Jim Shorney wrote: > > > The point was that CAT is not essential in any case. The notion that CAT is > *required* to use FT/JT modes is a myth propagated by those who don't know > any

Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread Jim Shorney
The point was that CAT is not essential in any case. The notion that CAT is *required* to use FT/JT modes is a myth propagated by those who don't know any better. There are those of us who do not use CAT for whatever reason and we appreciate the ability to operate this way. To successfully to

Re: [wsjt-devel] The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting

2019-04-25 Thread Tom Melvin
Thanks Bill I was not sure of the answer - so great, if the format is supported currently in FT8 it will be in FT4 - good. I see the EU VHF contest mode is getting a little more use now - mainly the Nordic 50 Mhz contest. Regards Tom -- 73’s Tom GM8MJV (IO85) On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:24, D

Re: [wsjt-devel] The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting

2019-04-25 Thread Bill Somerville
On 23/04/2019 16:40, Tom Melvin wrote: I don’t want to assume so will ask - FT4 aimed at ‘Contest Friendly digital modes’ - cool - BUT will it cater for the pile of weird contest rules that are out there. The abundance of requests for QSO Parties, Field Days where non-standards messages. Heck

Re: [wsjt-devel] The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting

2019-04-25 Thread Dave Boniface
Hi Tom, GM8MJV. My thoughts exactly. However of course it's not just UK contesting it's the EU and most of Region 1 where 6 character locators are needed to be exchanged. 73's all Dave, M0HJS. On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 at 16:43, Tom Melvin wrote: > > > Hi All > > I don’t want to assume so will as

Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread Frank Kirschner
Bill, Thanks for the info. I'm an old CW op at heart, and even with a PhD in EE, I sometimes scratch my head trying to figure out why the software works the way it does. 73, Frank KF6E On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:54 AM Bill Somerville wrote: > On 25/04/2019 14:15, Frank Kirschner wrote: > > Some

Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread Bill Somerville
On 25/04/2019 14:15, Frank Kirschner wrote: Someone wrote that the software prevented using Hound mode in the regular band segments. I was just demonstrating that this was not the case. I didn't actually transmit, since I saw no stations in Fox mode. Frank, WSJT-X tries to prevent *Fox* FT8

Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread Frank Kirschner
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:49 PM Jim Shorney wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:11:19 +0100 > "Martin Davies G0HDB" wrote: > > > The use of Split is all-but essential for slick operation in Hound mode, > which is presumably > > why the software complained if you changed to a Hound configuration > w

Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox

2019-04-25 Thread Frank Kirschner
Martin, Thanks for you complete reply. I appreciate your taking the time. My comments are below. On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:20 AM Martin Davies G0HDB wrote: > > Frank: > > If the station you want to work is concurrently transmitting multiple > (typically 3) signals 60Hz > apart, and conducting m