Under Settings/General do you have "Double-click on call sets Tx enable"
checked?
de Mike W9MDB
From: Ed Wilson via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: "wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ed Wilson <ed.wil...@ymail.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 7:29 AM
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
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