On 29/09/17 20:10, Bill Somerville wrote: > I am failing to see why most of the existing automatic behaviour when > double-clicking decodes has to be given up just for a number of > operators who think that by default one's Tx offset should not be moved > when replying to a CQ or QRZ call. To be clear, I agree that a simple > means of calling a station without moving one's Tx frequency to them is > necessary and there have been enough requests for a less onerous > mechanism than having to ALT+double-click CQ calls to justify a > different mechanism. As far as I can see the simple addition of a "Lock > Tx Freq" check box on the main window achieves the necessary behaviour > for those in the camp that wish to stay on a single frequency and not > checking it should suit all those that want to follow "normal" radio > communications practice. By normal communications practice I mean, you > tune to find stations to call, you stay on a fixed frequency if you are > the initial caller (CQ) and only adjust your Rx frequency (RIT) to track > moving QSO partners. The new settings option does not revert to "normal" > communications practice but to a different model altogether.
What Bill said. The default should be to respond to a CQing station on his offset, if only from the point of view of spectrum economy. If the default is 'half-duplex' rather than 'simplex' then the number of simultaneous QSOs that can fit into (say) 2500 Hz will fall by up to 50%. When several people are calling a DX station, by all means spread out, but please don't make this the default for large numbers of run-of-the-mill single-hop QSOs by possibly inexperienced operators. 73, Richard G4DYA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
