Rich,
It might be better for your visually-impaired friend to have someone develop a
'sister app' that interfaces with WSJT-X via the existing UDP interface. That
way any existing visual aides could be leveraged without having to add support
in the base application.
Just a thought.
On Jul 14, 2017, at 19:58, Rich - K1HTV
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Joe and the WSJT-X software development team,
First, congrats on the superb job you all have done in the creation of the
new FT8 mode. It works great! In 5 days, while running 50 Watts, a triband yagi
and wire antenna, I've managed to work 62 countries using FT8, including some
nice catches such as Bahrain, Iraq, Armenia, Japan, Gabon on 20M and multiple
VK's on 20M & 40M . I wish that 6 Meter propagation to DX lands would improve
so we can exercise the mode under multi-hop conditions on the Magic Band.
Its been fun, but, the main reason for this note is a request for you all to
consider.
One of my fellow DXer friends, with 355 countries confirmed and on the DXCC
Honor Roll, is interested in using the new FT8 mode but is visually impaired. I
wonder if there might be a way to make FT8 available to him and other blind
Radio operators?
Some additional features would need to be incorporated, such as:
- Shortcut keys for various required functions (TX Enable, TX disable, TX6-CQ,
Monitor ON, etc.)
- If voice output of alpha numeric WAV files is not possible, maybe an ASCII
output stream could be fed to a second COM port to feed an external
text-to-voice reader.
- UP/Down function keys to control pointing to lines in the "Band Activity"
window to be voiced.
- A key to select a chosen line which would then populate the message box and
activate TX Enable.
- Voice the characters of the line being transmitted so the blind op would know
the progress of the QSO.
- Although an ALT-Q will manually log a QSO, it would be helpful is there was
an automatic logging of a completed QSO data into an ADIF file for easy
uploading to LOTW.
I know that it is important to get solid WSJT-X code for release. But, once
this has been done, it would be
great if the WSJT-X team could make the necessary additions so visually
impaired Hams could use the new FT8 mode.
Thanks in advance for your consideration of this request to help our fellow
blind Radio Amateurs join in the fun of this new digital mode.
73,
Rich - K1HTV
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