Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi Frank, On 10/19/2018 9:47 AM, Frank Kirschner KF6E wrote: One thing I haven't seen discussed on this reflector is improving the S/N by narrowing the receiver bandwidth. It is no surprise that decreasing the bandwidth received increases the S/N, by 10 to 15 dB, sometimes more. When I see a

Re: [wsjt-devel] Error loading LoTW Users Data and Network Error

2018-10-19 Thread Hasan al-Basri
Thanks! Hasan On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:35 AM Bill Somerville wrote: > On 19/10/2018 14:26, Hasan al-Basri wrote: > > Bill, > > I downloaded and installed the 32 bit OpenSSL software this morning. > (after I had downloaded and copied the the *.csv file yesterday as a short > term fix) > ...and

[wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread Frank Kirschner
One thing I haven't seen discussed on this reflector is improving the S/N by narrowing the receiver bandwidth. It is no surprise that decreasing the bandwidth received increases the S/N, by 10 to 15 dB, sometimes more. When I see a station I want calling at -24 or so, I can narrow the BW and get

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread Frank Kirschner
When reducing the BW, the signal doesn't change, but the amount of noise does, and that changes the S/N. In a system that didn't do optimum digital filtering, reducing the BW to match that of the signal provides a S/N improvement. In SSB, for example, increasing the BW to more than the signal BW

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread DG2YCB, Uwe
Frank, seems indeed to work! Just tested during RX of station KG4HF with bandwidth of either 3 kHz or 500 Hz. See the following S/N comparison. Astonishing! 73 de Uwe, DG2YCB Von: Frank Kirschner [mailto:frank.kirsch...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Oktober 2018 15:48 An: WSJT

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread Frank Kirschner
Yes, that makes sense. I should have realized that the narrow filtering had to be done somewhere. Frank On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:19 AM George J. Molnar wrote: > If I recall correctly, the S/N calculation is made in WSJT-X based on a > fixed value somewhere around 2.8 kHz. Applying a wider or

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread David Alloza
Dear Frank, I allow myself to answer instead of the development team, they will correct later if i'am wrong. Reducing the receiver bandwidth, in general case, will not help improve the signal-to-noise ratio in WSJT-X. Or if it is the case it is because you output a too strong BF signal and

Re: [wsjt-devel] Error loading LoTW Users Data and Network Error

2018-10-19 Thread Hasan al-Basri
Bill, I downloaded and installed the 32 bit OpenSSL software this morning. (after I had downloaded and copied the the *.csv file yesterday as a short term fix) ...and the copy fix worked. So, I thought I would do the full fix. After the install, I went to the colors tab where the Fetch button

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread Black Michael via wsjt-devel
 A decrease of bandwidth by a factor of 6 will increase reported SNR by approximately 16dB.But that's just a matter of what noise reference you use...not any real change in the signal level.If you used signal peak instead of RMS the SNR reported would be really lowit's all relative to the

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread George J. Molnar
If I recall correctly, the S/N calculation is made in WSJT-X based on a fixed value somewhere around 2.8 kHz. Applying a wider or narrower bandwidth to the decoder will provide numerically different values, but not affect decoding performance UNLESS the narrowed bandwidth had an incidental

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread n2lo
Only reason to narrow BW is reduce the voltage into the ADC if it is over driven by broadband noise or an undesired signal. Attenuation may help but at the loss of dynamic range. DE N2LO~> Sent from Xfinity Connect Application -Original Message- From: j...@princeton.edu To:

Re: [wsjt-devel] Candidate release WSJT-X 2.0.0-rc3

2018-10-19 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
So no one else on the Mojave is having audio issues? Going back to 1.9.1 worked fine. The odd part is that Mojave asked to use the Microphone (which it never did with RC2 or 1.9.1). I had RC2 and installed RC3 and it asked to use the microphone. No joy. So I found a copy of 1.9.1, renamed it,

Re: [wsjt-devel] Candidate release WSJT-X 2.0.0-rc3 on MacOS

2018-10-19 Thread Georg Isenbürger
...keeps crashing on launch. Installed it on the desktop and launched it from the command line. Could be Mojave related... > Am 19.10.2018 um 18:33 schrieb Hisashi T Fujinaka : > > So no one else on the Mojave is having audio issues? Going back to 1.9.1 > worked fine. > > The odd part is that

Re: [wsjt-devel] Candidate release WSJT-X 2.0.0-rc3

2018-10-19 Thread John
Hisashi, When you started with Mojave, did you visit the Audio tab (WSJT-X > Preferences) and select your preferred Audio stream - USB Audio Codec or similar? What Audio link do you use between your rig (whicg rig?) and your computer? — John G4KLA smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [wsjt-devel] Improving S/N

2018-10-19 Thread Glen Brown
The exception, I assume, is with a strong local signal in the passband that causes clipping or requires reduction in rf gain. I use the notch filter for that OR get on the same tx phase with him. Glen W6GJB On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 8:51 AM Frank Kirschner wrote: > Yes, that makes sense. I should

Re: [wsjt-devel] Candidate release WSJT-X 2.0.0-rc3 on MacOS SUBPROCESS ERROR EXIT CODE 2?

2018-10-19 Thread Sean Sharkey via wsjt-devel
HI John, Hope all is well at your end. I’ve just given WSJT-X_2.0.0-rc3 a try with my MacPro, OS 10.11.6 El Capitan but I’m having trouble when the software tries to go into transmit during a QSO. I get the following error, Subprocess Error failed with exit code 2. The details box shows

Re: [wsjt-devel] Candidate release WSJT-X 2.0.0-rc3 on MacOS

2018-10-19 Thread John
Georg, > ..keeps crashing on launch. It would help if you give me some error messages; which mode were you using? Note that other users are running wsjtx on Mojave so I suspect that there is something else problematic with your setup rather than the version of OSX. — John G4KLA smime.p7s

[wsjt-devel] Positive Notes on RC3 in "old" FT8 mode

2018-10-19 Thread WB5JJJ
1.) I've noticed that JTAlert spots can now be clicked to start a contact. I changed nothing in WSJTx since v1.9.1 to make it work with previous RC's and just lived without the clickable spots until RC3. 2.) The larger UP and DN arrows are a great enhancement. Better target for mouse clicks.

[wsjt-devel] Error with wsjt-x 2.0.0 rc3 and cqrlog 2.3.0-2 together

2018-10-19 Thread Larry
Hello, I have been using wsjt-x 2.0.0 rc2 and cqrlog 2.3.0-1 together for FT8 successfully since the wsjt-x 2.0.0 rc2 came out.  I recently upgraded to wsjt-x 2.0.0 rc3 and still using it with cqrlog 2.3.0-1 am seeing wsjt-x crash with the following error message: Running: /usr/bin/jt9 -s

[wsjt-devel] Question

2018-10-19 Thread jim.ny0j
I'm running RC#3 and I'm seeing this for the first time. Not sure if it is unique to Ver 3.0 or just something 've newer ran across in earlier versions 230415 -18 -2.2 2962 ~ W7QQF/IMAGE 73 Jim Parks NY0J --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

Re: [wsjt-devel] Question

2018-10-19 Thread James Shaver
This is people using JT65HF Image Controller. Google “easypal” - not my cup of tea and I think it’s silly but different strokes... > On Oct 19, 2018, at 7:08 PM, wrote: > > I’m running RC#3 and I’m seeing this for the first time. Not sure if it is > unique to Ver 3.0 or just something ‘ve

Re: [wsjt-devel] Question

2018-10-19 Thread Gary Kohtala - K7EK via wsjt-devel
Jim, That has nothing to do with RC3. It is from someone sending a link for image exchange in a manner similar to EasyPal in the latter days (Hybrid).  They are simply sending a server link for a picture which will be opened in everyone's software just as in EasyPal. There are two or more

Re: [wsjt-devel] "L" instead of colors for LOTW

2018-10-19 Thread Richard Kriss
I am new to this list and would like to suggest the use of ”+” rather than ”L” to be consistent with the AR-Cluster spots that add a + to the right to show the call is a LoTW user. Richard AA5VU ___ wsjt-devel mailing list

Re: [wsjt-devel] Message error

2018-10-19 Thread charlie
Hi John This is a known problem. There was some message traffic about this here a day or two ago. Bill's solution (as a temporary workaround) is to double click 'TX1 now' button which disables it and forces you to send from TX2. There is a tool tip associated with this button. 73 Charlie >

Re: [wsjt-devel] Message error

2018-10-19 Thread John
Thanks Bill and Charlie, I persisted with an exchange with OE100KFV and eventually got through the QSO with manual intervention. Just seen your emails - I missed the traffic earlier about this. I’ll check whether my manual intervention iswhat you suggested. Bill, ft8code -t crashes. I

[wsjt-devel] Message error

2018-10-19 Thread John
This morning in response to an (unusual?) call sign: E770D (zero D) registered in QRZ.COM Snippet from ALL.TXT.Using 77 bit FT8 084130 5 0.1 471 ~ CQ E770D 084200 0 0.1 472 ~ CQ E770D 181019_084215 Transmitting

Re: [wsjt-devel] Message error

2018-10-19 Thread Bill Somerville
On 19/10/2018 11:19, John wrote: This morning in response to an (unusual?) call sign: E770D (zero D) registered in QRZ.COM Snippet from ALL.TXT.Using 77 bit FT8 084130 5 0.1 471 ~ CQ E770D 084200 0 0.1 472 ~ CQ E770D 181019_084215 Transmitting 14.078 MHz FT8: E770D G4KLA I