Hi Bill and all,
> Hope the travels were enjoyable, I gather from Dave G4RGK that the WX in
> France wasn't too pleasant.
Some rain, to be sure. But we had a delightful time nevertheless!
Thanks for detailing the remaining issues you're aware of in WSJT-X v1.4.
I'm working on bringing the User Guide up to date. I should be able to
post a new version soon. It will be accessible to those who are
compiling v1.4 for themselves.
I was not aware that we had CAT problems that can affect all users. (I
haven't seen any examples of frequency walking up/down the band on my
TS-2000, but admittedly my usage represents a small sample.)
As for the problems with FT817/857/897 and HRD... Couldn't we specify up
front that these issues are there, and warn users that might be affected
that they might want to delay upgrading to v1.4 a bit longer?
It seems to me that v1.4 is significantly better than v1.3 for many --
probably most? -- users. Certainly I'm happy to be using it myself.
Wouldn't it be helpful to start getting some user feedback on it, pretty
soon?
-- Joe, K1JT
>> We have a lot of good new code, documentation, and development aids in
>> the repository. Can we agree that it's reasonable to plan for a beta
>> release of WSJT-X v1.4 before too many more weeks have passed?
> I guess this is aimed at me more than most. I'd love to say "Yes let's
> do it!" but I'm afraid my opinion hasn't moved on much from the last
> time we had this discussion. For this I must apologise since I have not
> been able to apply as much effort since then as I would have liked. I
> have only really been able to respond to issue reports and requests and
> not the the core issues that I know are still there. Here is a quick
> summary:
>
> CAT in general - there is a fundamental flaw in the strategy I have used
> that can cause the frequency to walk up/down the band on some
> rig/interface combinations. I know basically how to fix it but the
> changes will need much testing since they lie largely in the remaining
> MainWindow class CAT code which is defect prone due its close coupling
> with the rest of the application logic.
>
> Hamlib FT817/857/897 enhancements - this project is currently stalled on
> what appears to be a show stopper. Unfortunately since I am relying on
> undocumented CAT commands for these rigs the non-cooperation of one of
> the key commands has stalled my efforts. I need to put in a lot of time
> trying to work around this issue before giving up since this rig group
> is such a popular and common feature in many shacks.
>
> HRD - recent issues raised by Mike W9MDB have revealed what appears to
> be serious problem talking to HRD when the HRD logbook is active. Given
> that one of the main reasons for using HRD to interface to the rig is
> because the user uses the HRD logbook, I believe this issue is critical
> for HRD users. Mike is helping with trying to get to the root cause
> which currently seems to be at the HRD end, but we don't know that for
> sure yet. Again undocumented commands are problematic since HRD don't
> document any of their TCP/IP interface.
>
> Documentation - when I asked if anyone would like to help with
> documentation of the new config and CAT features, Chase W4TI kindly
> offered to help and I thought we were making good progress with me
> feeding him technical details of the implementation and its implications
> and he starting to make extensive edits to the user guide. Unfortunately
> this effort stalled for which I must take some blame for not posting
> enough public information of our work progress. Chase has now stepped
> back from the project feeling that he was mislead and misinformed about
> what was needed. This is great shame as people stepping up to contribute
> are hard to find, but that is where we stand.
>
> Of these areas the 1st and last to a lesser extent are probably the ones
> I would most worry about as they potentially effect all users.
>>
>> -- Joe, K1JT
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
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