Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-11 Thread Nico Palermo
Igor, I think that the Vojager probes communication links still work without any HLR/VLR database technique at a distance of more than 100 astronomical units and nobody makes complaints. Am I missing something I yet don't know? 73 Nico / IV3NWV ___

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-10 Thread James Shaver
development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Igor, If you believe that DX-Spotting is equivalent to internet assisted sensitivity enhancement, then there is no point in further discussion. Apples and oranges, at the very least. N0AN Hasan On Mon

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-10 Thread Hasan al-Basri
; To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > IMO, it is very likely that an Internet dependant mode will not be > acce

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-09 Thread Игорь Ч via wsjt-devel
>Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol >Message-ID: < cedeed7f-9422-3e2c-b286-a3abc1508...@vkdxer.net > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > >IMO, it is very likely that an Internet dependant mode will not be >accepted f

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-09 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, No software in the WSJT family has ever depended on having an internet "co-channel". No software in the WSJT family will ever do so. I cannot imagine why anyone might have thought otherwise. I cannot imagine why anyone might have thought the wsjt-devel email reflector would be a

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-09 Thread Laurie, VK3AMA
On 10/09/2018 8:05 AM, David Tiller wrote: Your example of pskreporter and hamspots are not involved in and do not facilitate QSOs - they only collect metadata of QSOs. Any attempt to involve the internet with the completion of QSOs will probably be rejected by the ham community. If you want

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-09 Thread David Tiller
From: "G8DQX (WSJT developers on SF)" mailto:wsjtde...@gape.me.uk>> To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Message-ID: mailto:cdad522e-acfc-16b7-53f2-766fbad16...@gape.me.uk>

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-09 Thread Игорь Ч via wsjt-devel
and hamspots.net at 24x7 operation. . 73 Igor UA3DJY >Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 01:32:20 +0100 >From: "G8DQX (WSJT developers on SF)" < wsjtde...@gape.me.uk > >To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol >Messag

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread David Tiller
Amen, George. Ham radio is about _radio_, not the internet. On Sep 8, 2018, at 19:13, George J Molnar mailto:geo...@molnar.com>> wrote: While it probably is a remote possibility that the WSJT-X team is contemplating adding internet-based linkages, I want to agree with N2ADV and emphatically

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread G8DQX (WSJT developers on SF)
Igor, you forgot to mention that HLR & VLR technology is a *network* artefact, generally to be found in mobile telecommunications networks. The application to the Amateur Radio Service, where there are a large number of stations but *no* over-arching network control is very unclear. For a

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread James Shaver
] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Bravo, George! Internet help with the decode? That's downright silly. If we are going to use the internet to replace even a portion of the performance of rf, heck why bother with rf at all, and we can have infinite sensitivity? Hasan On Sat

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread Hasan al-Basri
Bravo, George! Internet help with the decode? That's downright silly. If we are going to use the internet to replace even a portion of the performance of rf, heck why bother with rf at all, and we can have infinite sensitivity? Hasan On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 6:13 PM George J Molnar wrote: >

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread George J Molnar
While it probably is a remote possibility that the WSJT-X team is contemplating adding internet-based linkages, I want to agree with N2ADV and emphatically say “no!” to any ham radio communications protocol that relies on anything but ham radio to work effectively. Even in this day of

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread James Shaver
] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Hello Joe and all, . Most of questions raised on this subject can be solved via HLR/VLR database server usage, where visitor location register can match to the specific HF band where callsign, frequency, hash of the message being transmitted, protocol

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-08 Thread Игорь Ч via wsjt-devel
Hello Joe and all, . Most of questions raised on this subject can be solved via HLR/VLR database server usage, where visitor location register can match to the specific HF band where callsign, frequency, hash of the message being transmitted, protocol and code rate can be stored, callsign hash

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-07 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
: Nico Palermo Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 1:47:21 PM To: WSJT software development Cc: Игорь Ч Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Hello Take, Rather, I suggest to form approved “working group” which defines the objective and timeline under this community. Fo

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-06 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Nico Palermo Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2018 1:44:33 PM To: WSJT software development Cc: Игорь Ч Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Take, we can indeed agree that transmitting a

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-05 Thread Nico Palermo
Take, we can indeed agree that transmitting an hash key could be better than to send a full call sign. Anyway when you transmit an hash key you miss the possibility for receivers to go back to the original information unless they decode a complete sequence of messages. With FT8 or with all the

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-05 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Nico Palermo Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2018 9:00:12 AM To: Игорь Ч; WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Probably

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-02 Thread Nico Palermo
10 > > > ---------- > *From:* Nico Palermo > *Sent:* Sunday, September 2, 2018 9:19:43 AM > *To:* k...@arrl.net; WSJT software development > *Subject:* Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol > > > Most applications of diversity reception

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
ftware development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Most applications of diversity reception are on the MF and low HF bands. I believe that most fading on these bands is selective fading, where signals traveling slightly different paths, the low-frequency equi

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Nico Palermo
> Most applications of diversity reception are on the MF and low HF bands. I > believe that most fading on these bands is selective fading, where signals > traveling slightly different paths, the low-frequency equivalent of > picket-fencing at VHF/UHF. It might be worth studying propagation on the

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Jim -- On 9/1/2018 5:31 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 9/1/2018 11:26 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: It's worth mentioning that for more than a decade MAP65, a sister program of WSJT, WSPR, and WSJT-X, has provided a powerful and uniquely effective form of diversity reception: polarization diversity. 

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Jim Brown
On 9/1/2018 11:26 AM, Joe Taylor wrote: It's worth mentioning that for more than a decade MAP65, a sister program of WSJT, WSPR, and WSJT-X, has provided a powerful and uniquely effective form of diversity reception: polarization diversity.  And yes, the outputs of two receivers ARE simply be

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi all, On 9/1/2018 1:58 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 9/1/2018 3:14 AM, Iztok Saje wrote: Instead of overcomplicating protocols, diversity reception shall be considered. Diversity reception has been around for nearly a century, and depends on the very complex computing engine located between the

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Jim Brown
On 9/1/2018 3:14 AM, Iztok Saje wrote: Instead of overcomplicating protocols, diversity reception shall be considered. Diversity reception has been around for nearly a century, and depends on the very complex computing engine located between the ears of the operator. My guess is that any

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread James Shaver
I’m misunderstanding. Jim S. N2ADV From: Игорь Ч via wsjt-devel [mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 6:33 PM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Игорь Ч Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Hello Joe

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-09-01 Thread Iztok Saje
Hello! Commenting contribution by Take, Igor etc: Instead of overcomplicating protocols, diversity reception shall be considered. Instead of variable bit rate, we can get up to 5 dB by combining repeated frames. We can often see several repetitions of same frame. Each repetition has

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-31 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
AM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Hi, Take. Greetings from Italy :-) A variable transmission rate would be appreciable indeed but we often forget that the main purpose of the WSJT-X modes was that of allowing some reliable amateur c

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-31 Thread Nico Palermo
> > Probably we can add more flexibility if some information will be passed > over Internet, for instance free text messages and GRID, it will spare more > bits toward sensitivity on the radio interface. Ok, Igor, but then I would prefer to call the new modes "Weak Internet Communications". 73

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-31 Thread Nico Palermo
e JA5AEA > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > > ------ > *From:* Nico Palermo > *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2018 7:04:31 AM > *To:* WSJT software development > *Subject:* Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-31 Thread Игорь Ч via wsjt-devel
Hello Joe, . It was excellent example with the WSPR QSO, just thought we can get additional FT8 gain if some messages at QSO will be transmitted as 'hash hash' / 'call hash' / 'hash call'   instead of callsigns. . Yes, there is a trade off between the sensitivity and protocol flexibility.

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-31 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
indows 10 From: Nico Palermo Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 7:04:31 AM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Furthermore there is no need to improve a protocol just to cope with energy limits when a really va

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-31 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
indows 10 From: Nico Palermo Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 7:04:31 AM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Furthermore there is no need to improve a protocol just to cope with energy limits when a really va

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-30 Thread Nico Palermo
Furthermore there is no need to improve a protocol just to cope with energy limits when a really variable medium, as the ionosphere is in the HFs, is the limit itself. Of course we could think to a new mode in which a 2-way QSO between two antipodal points on earth would require 50 mWatts instead

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-30 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Igor, Earlier this month you made suggestions for a possible new protocol for minimal weak-signal QSOs. I have been away on vacation since that time, so have not had a chance to respond. Of course there are many possible ways to make design trade-offs involving message size, duration of

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-13 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
AM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol I'd just leave it to the WSJT-X team, and only the WSJT-X team. Neil, KN3ILZ On 8/9/2018 4:08 PM, Andras Bato wrote: George is quite right! Leave it to t

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-13 Thread Neil Zampella
-devel@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol I'd just leave it to the WSJT-X team, and only the WSJT-X team. Neil, KN3ILZ On 8/9/2018 4:08 PM, Andras Bato wrote: George is quite right! Leave it to the dev team -and to Igor! It well worth to test wha

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-12 Thread Tsutsumi Takehiko
-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol I'd just leave it to the WSJT-X team, and only the WSJT-X team. Neil, KN3ILZ On 8/9/2018 4:08 PM, Andras Bato wrote: George is quite right! Leave it to the dev team -and to Igor! It well worth to test what does JTDX dev t

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-09 Thread Neil Zampella
I'd just leave it to the WSJT-X team, and only the WSJT-X team. Neil, KN3ILZ On 8/9/2018 4:08 PM, Andras Bato wrote: George is quite right! Leave it to the dev team -and to Igor! It well worth to test what does JTDX dev team do. gl de ha6nn Andras On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:10 PM, George J

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-09 Thread Andras Bato
George is quite right! Leave it to the dev team -and to Igor! It well worth to test what does JTDX dev team do. gl de ha6nn Andras On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:10 PM, George J Molnar wrote: > I think he is lamenting the “loss of sensitivity” with FT8 compared to > JT65 now that the former has come

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-09 Thread Neil Zampella
that the suggestion leaves out provisions for the various contests that the updated protocol will cover. Neil, KN3ILZ On 8/8/2018 11:03 AM, Wolfgang wrote: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Neil, you have to read before you snap back! Igor wrote, that we miss the sensivity

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-08 Thread Gary McDuffie
> On Aug 8, 2018, at 9:03 AM, Wolfgang wrote: > > So, we have -21 db in FT8 and in JT65 of around -27db > (92% decoded at -27db, 58% at -28db and 17% at -29db) FYI, several times in the last two or three weeks, I have decoded very weak ones at -24. At least that’s the report the program

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-08 Thread Wolfgang
Title: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Neil, you have to read before you snap back! Igor wrote, that we miss the sensivity of JT65 in FT8 ! So, we have -21 db in FT8 and in JT65 of around -27db (92% decoded at -27db, 58% at -28db and 17% at -29db) And the new

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-08 Thread George J Molnar
I think he is lamenting the “loss of sensitivity” with FT8 compared to JT65 now that the former has come to dominate. Not sure his math works out, so will leave that to the dev team. Imagine they are keenly interested in performance, too. George J Molnar Virginia, USA > On Aug 8, 2018, at

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol

2018-08-08 Thread Neil Zampella
Frankly,  I don't see where you're getting the idea that JT65 sensitivity is missing? It is still much more sensitive than FT8, and will be for the foreseeable future, as are the other WSJT-X modes.    JT9A is at -27, JT65A is at -25, and QRA64A  is at -26.   FT8 is -21 .. all this is based