Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjt-x

2015-05-17 Thread Steven Franke
a facility to call a user_hardware script before each 2-minute window should be no problem: earlier versions of WSPR do that, and it works well. -- Joe, K1JT On 5/13/2015 10:45 PM, Steven Franke wrote: Hi Joe, I tried the latest wsjt-x_exp this evening on Ubuntu 14.04

[wsjt-devel] wsjt-x

2015-05-13 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe, I tried the latest wsjt-x_exp this evening on Ubuntu 14.04 and it worked great! My regular hopping setup uses gnuradio to read the TS-480's audio from a sound card and write it to a .wav file. I send xmlrpc commands to stop and start recording. I was surprised to find that I could start

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjt-x

2015-05-17 Thread Steven Franke
imagine that such a procedure might increase the number of decodes in a particular 2-minute interval by a few, when the band is crowded. -- Joe On 5/17/2015 12:26 PM, Steven Franke wrote: For my purposes, I like the idea of using automatically calculated sunrise/sunset as the pre-defined

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-04 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, Give it a try and see if you can map your new code into the new class. Obviously ask here or directly if you need any help understanding any of my code or for help with how it might best be extended. I just checked in WsprTxScheduler.cpp and have it patched in to replace the schedule

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-05 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, On Jun 5, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: The point of call of Steve's new Tx scheduler needs to be moved into the WSPRBandHopping::next_hop() function so that the logic to decide when to tune and to block transmission on Rx only bands can be applied.

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-05 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, It is only a small change. If you move the call of next_tx_state() from MainWindow::bandHopping() into WSPRBandHopping::next_hop() just after the call to FC_hopping(). The member variable m_-tx_percent_ tracks the current value of the UI Tx Pct spin box. Something like:

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-05 Thread Steven Franke
On Jun 5, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 05/06/2015 16:41, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Hi Steve, It is only a small change. If you move the call of next_tx_state() from MainWindow::bandHopping() into WSPRBandHopping::next_hop() just after the call

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR DT error?

2015-06-05 Thread Steven Franke
I note that there appears to be a time offset somewhere in the WSPR round trip, I see decodes always with a -1.0 DT when both ends are running with the same wall clock time. I encountered this when I was writing the decoder. Most programs start TX at 1 second in, whereas the decoders define

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR DT error?

2015-06-05 Thread Steven Franke
:37 AM, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu wrote: Yes. Probably we should add 1 s to the DT reported by wsprd. -- Joe On 6/5/2015 8:34 PM, Steven Franke wrote: I note that there appears to be a time offset somewhere in the WSPR round trip, I see decodes always with a -1.0 DT when both

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-05 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, I really like what you’ve done with the Band Hopping scheduler! Before checking any boxes in the active-band scheduler I checked to see if it would automatically transmit on a single-band (Band Hopping unchecked) that was not active in the scheduler. No problem! I also noticed that there

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-06 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, While you are on a roll, I’ll just mention another wish-list item. We already have a Tx Next button — it would be nice to have a Next Band selector that would override the band-picking algorithm. This could just be a box with up-down arrow to cycle through the bands… This could be

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-06 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, Single band WSPR and band hopping WSPR should now be doing what I think we have agreed. Yes, single band operation now seems to work. Thanks! Steve k9an -- ___

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-06 Thread Steven Franke
Joe, I suppose for those who want to use a narrow (e.g. 30 minutes or less) grayline duration to try to catch a true grayline opening (when the entire path is aligned along the sunrise/sunset terminator), then it should probably be D-region sunset. In my case, at 40deg N, I am using 120 minute

[wsjt-devel] v1.6 callsigns retrieved from hashtable

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, I noticed that callsigns retrieved from the hashtable are not being displayed in the spots window. The callsign is visible in ALL_WSPR.TXT, with the customary callsign notation, however the callsign field is blank in the spots window. Steve k9an

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR Tx ratio scheduling and coordinated band hopping

2015-06-09 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, I think that what you describe is consistent with the following: Suppose that the the Tx Pct is set to 25%, some number of coordinated bands are active, and no bands are selected as Rx only. Then we will be transmitting 25% of the time and we also transmit on about 25% of the visits to

Re: [wsjt-devel] v1.6 callsigns retrieved from hashtable

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Franke
wrong with the generation of the hashcode for the 2nd message to be sent. Before I get to deep into this perhaps one of you, who knows the message generation code, can say quickly why this is failing. 73 Bill G4WJS. On 10/06/2015 13:56, Bill Somerville wrote: On 10/06/2015 13:19, Steven

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X: WSPR band hopping and tune up.

2015-06-03 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, There was some discussion about picking any random band from the users configured bands when the scheduled band is not configured. This is potentially tricky because the user specified tune up is only specified for the 10 standard hopping bands. It would perhaps be better to

[wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-24 Thread Steven Franke
For those testing wspr mode in wsjt-x, I have placed a .pdf file containing information on the current status of the experimental two-pass decoder wsprd_exp at this link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33211132/signal_subtraction.pdf I have been running the two-pass decoder with wsjt-x

[wsjt-devel] nhash.h

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, After your recent C/Fortran fixes to nhash.c, I can no longer compile because size_t is not defined. This change got it to compile: Index: lib/wsprd/nhash.h === --- lib/wsprd/nhash.h (revision 5576) +++ lib/wsprd/nhash.h

Re: [wsjt-devel] nhash.h

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Franke
On Jun 10, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 10/06/2015 20:57, Steven Franke wrote: Hi Bill, Hi Steve, After your recent C/Fortran fixes to nhash.c, I can no longer compile because size_t is not defined. This change got it to compile: Index: lib/wsprd

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjtx r5602 Astronomical data crash

2015-06-12 Thread Steven Franke
r5603 I am not seeing the Astro Data crash (Ubuntu 14.04). On a separate item, it looks like the new WSPR_history.txt is reporting the number of spots on the wrong band (it is reporting the band as the _next_ band, not the “just decoded” band). You can see this by comparing the entries for

Re: [wsjt-devel] -5578 dual WSPR and JT65/9 use via two instances.

2015-06-17 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Mike and Bill, On Jun 13, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 13/06/2015 18:25, Michael Black wrote: Hi Mike, You can adjust the left edge of the waterfall in the WSPR instance That's the Start XXX Hz entry. Just set it to 700 Hz. Then you can adjust

Re: [wsjt-devel] New WSPR scheduler

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Franke
Joe, Eric, Bill, I can reproduce similar behavior as follows. I am using a TS-480. Let 0:00 (m:ss) be the beginning of a cycle. Start the program (i.e. issue the command ./wsjtx) some time after 1:00. Some time between 1:00 and 1:30, press Tune, then press Tune again. Some time after 1:30, do Tx

Re: [wsjt-devel] v1.6 callsigns retrieved from hashtable

2015-06-10 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 10/06/2015 13:19, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Hi Steve, I noticed that callsigns retrieved from the hashtable are not being displayed in the spots window. The callsign is visible in ALL_WSPR.TXT

[wsjt-devel] 2 pass decoding for WSPR

2015-06-14 Thread Steven Franke
This is a report of early results from my first attempt at implementing 2-pass decoding. The idea was suggested by Joe a few weeks ago. The motivation is to try to squeeze out a few more decodes on crowded bands where there are a number of otherwise decodable signals being covered up by

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR2 TX problem

2015-05-28 Thread Steven Franke
I attach a .diff file that fixes the “GrayLineDuration not remembered on startup” problem. Steve k9an k9an_150528_patch.diff Description: Binary data On May 27, 2015, at 4:25 PM, Steven Franke s.j.fra...@icloud.com wrote: I have been running an instance nonstop for several days. I

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr hopping

2015-05-31 Thread Steven Franke
What are you using for the grayline bands and duration? Joe - Right now I have it set up as follows: Sunrise: 80 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 Day: 30 20 17 15 12 10 Sunset: 40 30 20 17 15 10 Night: 160 80 40 30 20 Gray Time: 120 On a couple of occasions I’ve felt like the grayline duration was not

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr hopping

2015-05-31 Thread Steven Franke
Joe, FYI, r5482 is an attempt to iteratively massage the tx(10,6) table so that it has maximum number of consecutive transmissions of 2 and also satisfies “minimum number of transmissions per 2 hour period constraint… Steve k9an On May 31, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr hopping

2015-06-01 Thread Steven Franke
. On 05/31/2015 04:25 PM, Steven Franke wrote: What are you using for the grayline bands and duration? Joe - Right now I have it set up as follows: Sunrise: 80 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 Day: 30 20 17 15 12 10 Sunset: 40 30 20 17 15 10 Night: 160 80 40 30 20 Gray Time: 120 On a couple

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr hopping

2015-06-01 Thread Steven Franke
As for the other case that Eric mentioned (band hopping _not_ selected, band set to 630m, TX enabled). For this case, my proposal was to still use the same 10x6 tx table to control whether or not to TX. In fact, I tested this here over the weekend using 40m (band hopping not selected, band

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr hopping

2015-05-30 Thread Steven Franke
. Probably it has something to do with the changes Bill made to the way frequency/mode combinations are stored and used, and my code around line 4164 in mainwindow.cpp. -- Joe On 5/29/2015 8:04 PM, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Joe and all, Running r5467 which incorporates Bill’s recent

[wsjt-devel] wspr hopping

2015-05-29 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, Joe and all, Running r5467 which incorporates Bill’s recent repairs to bandhopping. Hopping seems to be working, but I have seen 4 successive transmissions already after running for only an hour or so. FWIW, I noticed that the line of code that should prevent successive transmissions

Re: [wsjt-devel] Wsjt-x r5469 r5472

2015-05-30 Thread Steven Franke
I can confirm that it looks like 80m was “skipped” at 0302, even though it was in my “Night” list. On the other hand, 160m and the other bands do seem to “work”. Steve k9an On May 30, 2015, at 8:46 PM, Josh Rovero josh.rov...@gmail.com wrote: I am noticing that the lowest band, 80m, that I

Re: [wsjt-devel] Wanted: Feedback on WSPR in WSJT-X

2015-06-01 Thread Steven Franke
Joe, I think that it’d be very helpful to have more input to help guide the WSPR efforts. For the record, here is a situation that I’ve encountered 3 times now that should be addressed eventually: If EnableTX is started very late in the 2-minute window _and_ if the window happened to be a

[wsjt-devel] wsprd_exp improvements

2015-07-03 Thread Steven Franke
Joe and wspr in wsjtx testers: I’ve significantly improved the efficiency of the sync-search in the current version (r5668) of wsprd_exp.c. On a large (1953 files) batch of files representing all bands and the entire diurnal cycle the r5668 wsprd and wsprd_exp compare as follows: wsprd: 5083

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsprd_exp improvements

2015-07-03 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe, On Jul 3, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu wrote: Hi Steve, On 7/3/2015 9:29 AM, Steven Franke wrote: Joe and wspr in wsjtx testers: I’ve significantly improved the efficiency of the sync-search in the current version (r5668) of wsprd_exp.c. On a large (1953

Re: [wsjt-devel] *.c2 files

2015-07-02 Thread Steven Franke
Claude, On Jul 2, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 02/07/2015 11:33, Claude Frantz wrote: What is the format of the *.c2 files ? How can they be converted to a more common format, e.g. using a tool like sox ? AFAIK it is an internally defined format. The

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsprd_exp improvements

2015-07-03 Thread Steven Franke
Joe, On Jul 3, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu wrote: Hi Steve, Hmmm. That’s interesting and surprising. I tested it separately on 40m and 20m files and saw 35% and 17% reduction in execution time, respectively. So when I got 25% reduction for the large batch containing

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-28 Thread Steven Franke
with subtraction and two-passes:16 decodes 4. no-peak-requirement modification to wsprd_exp: 19 decodes Steve k9an On Jun 28, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Steven Franke s.j.fra...@icloud.com wrote: Joe, Frequency-sorting has now been committed. It dawned on me that it is no longer really

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-28 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, On Jun 28, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 28/06/2015 15:46, Steven Franke wrote: Hi Steve, ... It is dog-slow as it stands. But I’m sure that there are things that we can do to speed it up significantly. This might be a good application

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-28 Thread Steven Franke
...@classdesign.com wrote: On 28/06/2015 21:51, Bill Somerville wrote: On 28/06/2015 21:41, Steven Franke wrote: John and Bill, Hi Steve, On Jun 28, 2015, at 2:24 PM, John Nelson j...@rmnjmn.demon.co.uk wrote: Steve, Back with WSJT-X. Running wsprd_exp on my Mac (OSX 10.10.3) and seeing

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-07-01 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, On Jul 1, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 01/07/2015 14:25, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Joe, Michael, and all, Hi Steve, Do we know what change caused the larger stack requirement? Yes, I caused this problem by being lazy when I added the arrays

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-07-02 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, On Jul 2, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 29/06/2015 15:00, Bill Somerville wrote: Hi Steve others who build gnuradio and WSJT-X on Mac, ... OK, the problem wasn't quite what I thought. It is an include directive ordering issue but it stems

Re: [wsjt-devel] updated wsprd

2015-05-23 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, Thanks for the comments! IMHO any setting that increases the number of bad decodes is not worth the time saved unless that time is in danger of being longer than the available time before the next decode cycle. I say this because unfiltered bad decodes cause erroneous outliers,

Re: [wsjt-devel] Band Hopping in WSPR mode

2015-05-21 Thread Steven Franke
Joe - I have it running here now. I’m having a couple of problems: 1. I am not seeing the WSPR frequencies in the Frequencies tab or in the Dropdown menu on the GUI. Do I need to enter these manually somewhere? Perhaps this will explain the next two issues: 2. I can control the radio (TS-480)

Re: [wsjt-devel] Band Hopping in WSPR mode

2015-05-21 Thread Steven Franke
of the manual pull-down list. -- Joe On 5/21/2015 7:44 PM, Steven Franke wrote: Thanks Bill! After deleting the “frequencies” line from the .INI file I now see the WSPR frequencies (as well as the WSJT frequencies). Now, band hopping appears to be working. It still looks like the user_hardware

Re: [wsjt-devel] frequency offset?

2015-05-21 Thread Steven Franke
I should add that there is no frequency offset on received signals. Signals received simultaneously on the WSJT-X/TS-480 setup and on a separate receiver using my own software are always within 0.1 Hz of each other. On May 21, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Steven Franke s.j.fra...@icloud.com wrote: I

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-2 - Scheduler in no band hopping mode

2015-07-07 Thread Steven Franke
% 10,1% 9,0% 2,2% 2,2% 3,4% 0,0% 0,0% 0,0% 2,2% 2,2% 0,0% 0,0% 1,1% 0,0% 0,0% 2,2% 100,0% Apologies in advance , not sure if table will be very readable !!!. Best 73 Jean Louis -Message d'origine- De : Steven Franke [mailto:s.j.fra

[wsjt-devel] Seated with ea

2015-08-15 Thread Steven Franke
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Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-29 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe, On Jun 29, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu wrote: Hi Steve and all, I have run a new series of tests of various WSPR decoders, with results that may be of interest to others. The test runs all used the same set of 386 *.wav files, processed with the following

Re: [wsjt-devel] wsjt-x build problem on OS X

2015-06-29 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, On Jun 29, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 29/06/2015 22:30, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Hi Steve, On Jun 29, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 29/06/2015 22:17, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, On Jun 29, 2015, at 3:57

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-26 Thread Steven Franke
that, Id like to see that at least a couple of people besides me have been able to use wsprd_exp without problems. Steve k9an 73's Greg, KI7MT On 06/24/2015 07:30 PM, Steven Franke wrote: For those testing wspr mode in wsjt-x, I have placed a .pdf file containing information on the current

Re: [wsjt-devel] wspr two-pass decoder status and .c2 file problem

2015-06-30 Thread Steven Franke
For those testing wspr mode in wsjt-x ver 1.6, I’ve just committed r5644 which makes decoder #5 from Joe’s table, below, the default decoder in wsjt-x ver 1.6. It is no longer necessary to separately compile wsprd_exp to get the benefits of two-pass decoding. Steve k9an On Jun 29, 2015, at

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR decoder: Jelinek vs Fano

2015-07-30 Thread Steven Franke
set of WSPR .wav files that your using to compare with? Would be nice to be able to use a standard set for testing. 73's Greg, KI7MT On 07/29/2015 07:36 PM, Steven Franke wrote: Greg - The windows Makefile has not been updated for the stack decoder. I’ve only tested it on linux

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR decoder: Jelinek vs Fano

2015-07-28 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Greg and Joe, As Joe said, the stack decoder is only in wsprd_exp and it requires a command-line argument (-J) to activate it, as the default algorithm in wsprd_exp is the Fano algorithm. The tests conducted by me and Joe show that my implementation of Jelinek’s stack-bucket algorithm

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR decoder: Jelinek vs Fano

2015-08-02 Thread Steven Franke
On Aug 2, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Joe Taylor j...@princeton.edu wrote: Hi Steve, Edson, and all, I had forgotten that wsprd_exp is currently using a different sync algorithm. Thanks for the explanations. I, too, am happy with the way the modified fano.c is behaving. By all means, go

Re: [wsjt-devel] -O3 -ffast-math for wspr decoder

2015-07-23 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, On Jul 23, 2015, at 5:16 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 23/07/2015 03:13, Steven Franke wrote: Hi all, Hi Steve, While playing with an alternative to the Fano decoder over here I discovered that using -O3 -ffast-math significantly decreases execution time

Re: [wsjt-devel] Is this list alive?

2015-07-25 Thread Steven Franke
It appears that we are back in business on SourceForge. Yep! I just committed an update to the experimental wspr decoder (wsprd_exp) that can use the tried-and-true Fano decoder or a new experimental “stack” decoder. My initial experiments indicate that the stack decoder as currently

[wsjt-devel] -O3 -ffast-math for wspr decoder

2015-07-22 Thread Steven Franke
Hi all, While playing with an alternative to the Fano decoder over here I discovered that using -O3 -ffast-math significantly decreases execution time of the decoder on my linux and OS X platforms. Near as I can tell, cmake is currently using -O2 for Debug and -O3 for Release versions. I need

[wsjt-devel] jt65 signal subtraction

2015-10-25 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe and all, I’ve done some preliminary work on signal subtraction for jt65. The routine subtract65 is intended to be called in jt65a within the “icand” loop. I have commented out the call for now - but I have done enough tests to convince myself that the math is basically correct and that

Re: [wsjt-devel] jt65 signal subtraction

2015-10-26 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe, > In the WSJT slow modes PTT is nominally asserted at t=0 s and audio > starts at t=1 s in a UTC minute. SimJT generates wav files in which the > noise starts at t=0 and signal starts at t=1. I guess this is > essentially what you observed? Perhaps this is what I’m seeing. I

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 (6015) vs 1.5.0

2015-10-28 Thread Steven Franke
Hi George, At the moment, the two-pass decoding scheme is implemented only in the command-line test program jt65. The differences that you were seeing between v1.5 and v1.6.1 would be due to different synching schemes and also slight differences between kvasd and sfrsd2 performance. 73 Steve

Re: [wsjt-devel] jt65 signal subtraction

2015-10-29 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe and all - I’m glad that you’ve incorporated the two-pass decoding into 1.6.1 Joe! I’ve done a couple of tests. First, a summary of my own results on my batch of 333 hf files. Cases 6 and 7 are from the latest 1.6.1 with two-pass decoding: 1. v1.5 with kvasd: 3128 (2 bad) 2. v1.5 with

Re: [wsjt-devel] jt65 signal subtraction

2015-10-27 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe and all, Thanks Joe for implementing the fft-based convolution. It makes a big difference in execution time. It might save even more time if we calculated the averaged complex amplitude at, say, 1/100’th or even 1/1000’th as many points enabling us to use a much smaller fft for the

Re: [wsjt-devel] jt65 signal subtraction

2015-10-27 Thread Steven Franke
Joe and all: I can’t resist posting this example that shows what two-pass decoding can do on a crowded band. The first pass yields 12 decodes (as does the current 1.6.1 r6014). The second pass, after subtraction, yields 8 more decodes for a total of 20 from a single wav file and within about a

Re: [wsjt-devel] high sensitivity of decoder vs TRX AGC handling

2015-11-11 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Igor, Since this may be of interest to others, I’m copying this reply to the list. First, I’d like to echo what Joe said earlier. If you are running in JT65A mode and if your search range is the same for all cases, then you should see identical results on all platforms and operating systems

Re: [wsjt-devel] weak signals decoding under r6058 vs r6080

2015-11-14 Thread Steven Franke
Igor, This is likely due to the very strong burst of interference at about 21 s into the file. It looks like a chirpsounder swept through the band at that time. This interference is about 40 dB larger than the noise floor. The 1-bit correlation will be relatively immune to this spike, whereas

Re: [wsjt-devel] Monitor button size on OS X

2015-11-03 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill and John, I’m using qt 5.4.2. Perhaps that explains why I see this and John doesn’t? Steve k9an > On Nov 3, 2015, at 5:38 AM, Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: > > On 03/11/2015 02:23, Steven Franke wrote: >> This is to document a minor aes

Re: [wsjt-devel] difference in audio files decoding

2015-11-07 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Igor, Sandro and all, I’m at a loss as to why or how the same revision would give such different decoding results on different machines. So far, I am not able to reproduce that here. In r6058 I’ve committed another change that is designed to reduce the number of false syncs. I implemented

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X low SNR performance

2015-11-02 Thread Steven Franke
Wait. What? Very cool example, but I’m confused. When the user changes messages in mid-stream, my assumption was that the program would jump to the beginning of the new message symbol-stream, i.e. start at the beginning of a new message. But then the second message would decode with a big dt,

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X low SNR performance

2015-11-02 Thread Steven Franke
a bit. Enjoy the conference! Steve k9an > On Nov 2, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > On 11/2/2015 3:59 PM, Steven Franke wrote: >> Wait. What? Very cool example, but I’m confused. >> >> When the user change

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X low SNR performance

2015-10-31 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe and all, I’ve just committed a batch of modified routines associated with my attempts to improve the low-SNR performance of wsjt-x. I did a number of experiments aimed at identifying why wsjt-x was not performing as well as wsjt on our low-snr test files. I used the jt65 test program

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X low SNR performance

2015-10-31 Thread Steven Franke
Joe - For reference, here is the bash script that I used to convert my JTSim files to 16-bits at 12kS/s. You’d have to change the directory name, of course. Steve #!/bin/bash for i in $( cd ../JT65-24db; ls A*.WAV); do echo $i; sox --ignore-length ../JT65-24db/$i -r 12000 -b 16 ./$i; done

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X low SNR performance

2015-10-31 Thread Steven Franke
nfb=3000 > > If you try to run the -24dB data using the hf settings, it becomes > intolerably slow. > Steve k9an > > >> On Oct 31, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Steven Franke <s.j.fra...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Joe - >> For reference, here is the bash scri

[wsjt-devel] Monitor button size on OS X

2015-11-02 Thread Steven Franke
This is to document a minor aesthetic issue. On OS X, but not on linux, the Monitor button is smaller than the other buttons when it is off (not Green): Steve k9an-- ___

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-15 Thread Steven Franke
Joe, > I conclude that for these files the candidate selection is OK > (preferably with a somewhat higher threshold for ntest), but sfrsd is > not decoding as many as it "should". I suspect that for marginal > signals either different metrics or different values in the probability > matrix

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-15 Thread Steven Franke
I have attached the sfrsd2.c that I used to produce the results reported below. Steve k9an sfrsd2.c Description: Binary data > On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Steven Franke <s.j.fra...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Joe, > Reporting on results of this evening’s tests on -24db gaussian

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-15 Thread Steven Franke
me to drop the same sfrsd2.c into whatever version you used to generate the s3_1000.bin file. Do you remember what version that was? Steve k9an > On Oct 15, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Steven Franke <s.j.fra...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Joe, > >> I conclude that for these files th

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-15 Thread Steven Franke
Joe - > Do you think we may need to use > different erasure probabilities for HF and EME-like conditions? Sorry, I didn’t answer this question. Working in between appts and meetings here. My aim is to come up with erasure probabilities that will work reasonably well for both situations and,

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-16 Thread Steven Franke
d you please give me details on exactly how you built rsdtest? In > what directory, in our SVN tree? With what Makefile? > > -- Joe > > > On 10/15/2015 10:03 PM, Steven Franke wrote: >> Joe, >> Reporting on results of this evening’s tests on -24db gaussian

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-15 Thread Steven Franke
lsar/K1JT/decodes_vs_ntrials3.pdf > suggests that this is not the issue. Do you think we may need to use > different erasure probabilities for HF and EME-like conditions? > > -- Joe > > On 10/11/2015 5:11 PM, Steven Franke wrote: >> Hi Joe and all, >> >> This mes

Re: [wsjt-devel] Error Message -

2015-10-10 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Neil, I have committed an update which may squelch the error that you observed. But…. be advised that the 1.6.1 branch is not in a stable state at this time. We are experimenting with a completely new scheme for detecting and selecting signals that are candidates for submission to the jt65

[wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-11 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Joe and all, This message summarizes my recent work on jt65 decoding in 1.6.1. I’ve added 3 new entries to the table summarizing JT-65a decoding results on my batch of 333 20m .wav files. Program Good Bad SoftDecoder

Re: [wsjt-devel] 1.6.1 r5970 notes

2015-10-12 Thread Steven Franke
> On Oct 11, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Steven Franke <s.j.fra...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi Joe and all, > > This message summarizes my recent work on jt65 decoding in 1.6.1. > > I’ve added 3 new entries to the table summarizing JT-65a decoding results on >

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-2 - Scheduler in no band hopping mode

2015-07-07 Thread Steven Franke
implementing it…) -- Joe On 7/7/2015 3:58 PM, Steven Franke wrote: Joe and Jean Louis, I don’t see what’s wrong with the distribution that Jean Louis measured. In fact, I’m happy with it! It looks like a geometric distribution, which is exactly what you get for the run-length

[wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, I just updated back to r5700 and the problem that I described yesterday occurred after the first transmission. I captured the following from the trace file: Wed Jul 8 18:35:53 2015 GMT(/home/radio/Builds/wsjtx/HamlibTransceiver.cpp:41)Critical: Hamlib: kenwood_transaction: Unknown

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
Mike and Bill, On Jul 8, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 08/07/2015 19:43, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Hi Steve, I just updated back to r5700 and the problem that I described yesterday occurred after the first transmission. I captured the following from

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
this change, but the problem occurred after the first transmission. I will respond to Bill’s latest separately. Steve k9an 73 Mike W9MDB -Original Message- From: Steven Franke [mailto:s.j.fra...@icloud.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 4:04 PM To: WSJT software development Subject

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-09 Thread Steven Franke
Mike,I ran your change on top of Bill’s patch. See the attached diff file for the difference between r5700 and my current dirty version.It did not solve the problem.The trace results are here:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33211132/WSJT-X_trace_5.logThe trace starts when I started the

Re: [wsjt-devel] trace file location on mac

2015-07-11 Thread Steven Franke
Bill, On Jul 11, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 11/07/2015 20:35, Steven Franke wrote: Hi Steve, I’m running the latest wsjt-x 1.6 on a mac, and I have set WSJT_QDEBUG_TO_FILE and WSJT_QDEBUG_IN_RELEASE, but I cannot find WSJT-X_trace.log. It appears

[wsjt-devel] Improvements to WsprTxScheduler

2015-07-11 Thread Steven Franke
In r5715 I have comitted changes WsprTxScheduler.cpp which address the following issues: - force first slot in the 2-hour tx schedule to always be a receive slot to eliminate the possibility of a double tx when the last (visited) slot of the old table and first slot of the new table are both

Re: [wsjt-devel] rig control errors

2015-07-11 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill and Mike, On Jul 11, 2015, at 5:55 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 08/07/2015 02:13, Steven Franke wrote: Bill, Hi Steve, In the past couple of hours since updating to r5700 I have had four rig control error events after many weeks of flawless operation

Re: [wsjt-devel] trace file location on mac

2015-07-11 Thread Steven Franke
with a bone here... Mike W9MDB -Original Message- From: Steven Franke [mailto:s.j.fra...@icloud.com] Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:50 PM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] trace file location on mac Bill, On Jul 11, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Bill Somerville g4

Re: [wsjt-devel] trace file location on mac

2015-07-11 Thread Steven Franke
I should also note that although r5685 works fine with the TS480, it throws a sequence of errors when the program is terminated with “Quit”. The latest revision (5700) does this too. On Jul 11, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Steven Franke s.j.fra...@icloud.com wrote: Mike, Here: https

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-2 - Further test Scheduler in no band hopping mode

2015-07-07 Thread Steven Franke
- De : Steven Franke [mailto:s.j.fra...@icloud.com] Envoyé : mardi 7 juillet 2015 02:17 À : WSJT software development Objet : Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-2 - Scheduler in no band hopping mode Jean Louis, Joe - Does this happen only if you have never touched TX Pct since starting the program

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
r5685 and r5700. The former (5685) works and the latest (5700) doesn’t work. These were changes to the logic surrounding the decision to transmit. Steve k9an -Original Message- From: Steven Franke [mailto:s.j.fra...@icloud.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 5:10 PM To: WSJT

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSPR-2 - Scheduler in no band hopping mode

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
Victor, On Jul 8, 2015, at 5:29 PM, Victor Batchelor hs0...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Guys, I am running r5690 with TX% set to 18. # times in the last 10 hours it has transmitted twice in succession. While testing this afternoon I saw this once, too and I realized that it is possible for

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
. Let’s stand down on this for now. No one else is reporting a problem, and I’m able to run using VOX. I suggest that we see if it affects anyone else before we spend more time on it. Steve k9an -Original Message- From: Steven Franke [mailto:s.j.fra...@icloud.com] Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Franke
Hi Bill, On Jul 8, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 08/07/2015 23:10, Steven Franke wrote: Hi Steve, On Jul 8, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 08/07/2015 22:03, Steven Franke wrote: Mike and Bill, Hi Steve, I deleted

Re: [wsjt-devel] r5700

2015-07-09 Thread Steven Franke
On Jul 9, 2015, at 7:04 AM, Bill Somerville g4...@classdesign.com wrote: On 09/07/2015 05:16, Michael Black wrote: Hi Mike, I noticed in that log that PTT=true comes before the frequency change and PTT=false afterwards. Was probably in the prior log too just didn't notice it. I'm

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