Hi Phil and Ed,
Thanks for sharing your views.
We thought long and hard about backward-compatibility issues before
concluding that a change in the FT8 protocol was highly desirable.
Among the most important motivations were these:
1. Message formats optimized for North American VHF
Hi Phil.
This question is really for the WSJT development team to address. But, my
personal opinion as a user differs a bit from yours. I'll offer it here as
another perspective.
In general, I agree with your stated principle of backward compatibility.
At the same time I tolerate breaking the
