Bill,
I am going to have to sort out what you have told me. I am a retired (15
years ago) Electrical Engineer specializing in testing of acoustic equipment
(military and commercial).
I was away from Ham Radio for over 55 years and just got back into it 2 ½
years ago. So, consider me a Novice.
I have always used WSJT-X for JT-65/9 (didn't like the other programs that
were out there) and have DXCC and 7 Bands of WAS to show how well the
program works.
I have always made it a practice to upgrade software whenever a new release
is made. But this time, after uneventfully using WSJT-X in its many
incarnations, this problem with the "MR" button being canceled and dropping
the frequency 1,200 Hz has only occurred with v1.7.0
What I think that you are telling me is that my suite of H/W and S/W should
never have worked the way I described. Am I correct is saying that?
To the best of my ability, it is the only way that I can get the FT-950, HRD
and WSJT-X to play nicely together.
So, if I am correct about it always working this way with other incarnations
of WSJT-X, I would assume that something in v1.7.0 changed and caused the
problem I am seeing.
I hate to revert to v1.6.0, because v.1.7.0 is capable of "doing" JT65/9
better than v1.6.0.
Also, 60m is divided up into 5 sub-bands in the U.S. and that is what the
"MR" selection does - selects US1 thru US5. The FT-950 refuses to transmit
on 60m if the "MR" icon is not lit. If I try to use the VFO, it will not
transmit.
Now, on WSJT-X there is only one selection for 60m and no selection for the
5 sub-bands. I, the operator, have to select "MR" manually and rotate a
knob to select the US3 sub-band. WSJT-X is not doing that for me! I am
doing it manually.
The Memory Read always stays selected unless I manually deselect it. Or, at
least, that is the way it has always worked. What's happening now is the
Memory Read is being deselected by v1.7.0 and has to be reset manually after
every transmission. So, I believe that some bit in the CAT stream is being
tweaked by WSJT-X as an unintended consequence of some other operation
WSJT-X thinks it is doing.
I am going to tinker with trying to run directly from WSJT-X and use HRD
only for logging. But, I think that this might be a lost cause. As I said
before, the FT-950 will only transmit on 60m from a Memory Read. I will
have to admit, that I have tried other methods before and this is the only
one that works..
Again, the FT-950 will only transit on 60m if the frequency is recalled by
the Memory Read button. So adjusting the adjusting the frequency manually
deselects the Memory Read function and then "NO TRANSMIT"!
Thoughts?
73's, Neil K7IPP
From: Bill Somerville [mailto:g4...@classdesign.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 3:03 PM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Problem with WSJT-X 1.7.0 on 60M
On 08/02/2017 21:43, Neil Mayes wrote:
The problem is that the "MR" (memory read) icon/indicator (used only to set
up 60m operation) on the FT-950 extinguishes after the end of a transmission
and resets back to "VFO Mode", whether it is a "tune" mode or a "QSO" mode
and then has to be manually reset time after time. The frequency also drops
200Hz and locks out XMT.
Hi Neil,
I am quite surprised you can use an FT-950 on 60m with any form of WSJT-X
rig control. We assume that the rig can be controlled by setting a VFO
frequency and optionally mode. This rig only supports Tx on 60m by selecting
a memory channel and we simply do not support that.
If HRD is doing something clever to sort this out then maybe if you adjust
the WSJT-X "Settings->Frequencies" working frequencies table to contain
exactly the memory channel frequencies that the rig supports you will have
some luck. clearly using split support is out of the question.
BTW I am a little surprised that you have "Settings->Radio->Mode" set to
USB, it looks like this rig would need to be set to PKT(USB) to support
direct Tx audio via the rear DATA jack. Alternatively you can set
"Settings->Radio->Mode" to "None" and set the rig mode manually or in HRD.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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