Hi Ed,
How is your "Allow TX freq changes during transmision" ?
73 Ady YO2NAA
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From: Ed Wilson via wsjt-devel [mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2017 3:04 PM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Ed Wilson
Subject: [wsjt-devel] FT8 Issue
Colleagues,
I have been testing FT8 since it was made available near the end of June. I
have made approximately 60 contacts with this mode and like it a lot.
JT65/JT9 seems like slow motion now! As predicted from the simulations, it
does appear to be somewhat less sensitive than JT65/JT9, but I am decoding
signals in the -19/-20 dB range with no problems.
I noticed an issue yesterday and I am not sure whether it might be a bug or
something at my end. I am no "spring chicken" but I think that my reflexes
are still pretty good. Here is the issue:
If I call CQ and get a response as evidenced by my call on a line with a
red background in the Band Activity window, I try to answer by
double-clicking the line. When I do this, nothing happens and I transmit
another CQ. Likewise, if I am sending CQ and I see some other station
calling CQ that I would like to contact if I double-click on the line
containing his CQ, nothing happens and I send out another CQ myself. If I
quickly disable the transmit button before double-clicking, I seem to have
no problem responding to the other station as the line moves to the RX
Frequency window and Auto Sequence can proceed..
I guess it is possible that I am not "quick enough on the trigger", but as I
mentioned above, I think that my reflexes are still pretty good.
Additionally, I just noticed this issue after the release of the revised FT8
protocol version on Saturday. I suppose that another possibility might be
that I need to upgrade my amateur radio computer as it is at least five
years old but it does have a quad-core Intel processor and has served me
well in all other amateur radio applications to date. Is it possible that
the decode is too slow on my computer to allow me to double-click in time? I
do not think that this is the case since I seem to have no problems if I can
quickly disable transmit before double-clicking.
I was not able to do a lot of testing yesterday since I had a long
"honey-do" list from my XYL, but I should have some more time today. I did
want to mention this issue before the release candidate is made available to
the "masses".
Thanks for any insight!
Ed, K0KC
k...@arrl.net
http://k0kc.us/
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