I'd like to support Dwight's comment again. How well the FT8 receive marker
stands out is a fine point for sure. But I think there are good reasons to
want to find it quickly. Sometimes it happens that another operator and I have
a contact going, and he has sent me a good signal report -- let's say -10 or so
-- and then I don't get his message on the next go-around. I want to find his
signal on the waterfall and see whether it is fading or another station's
signal is interfering. My eyes+brain can figure that out faster by looking at
the waterfall than by looking at a table of data. If his signal looks good,
then perhaps he can't hear me because of interference and I should change
frequency. Also, I like looking at the signal of the operator I'm
communicating with. It's a little bit like looking a guy in the eye when
speaking with him. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott
W6SDD
> On Apr 25, 2018, at 15:50, dgb <n...@bayland.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Gary and you are right in actual use of the application. It's just a
> visual thing with these old eyes I guess! ;-)
>
> 73 Dwight NS9I
>
>
> On 4/25/2018 3:54 PM, g...@isect.com <mailto:g...@isect.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dwight.
>>
>> I agree with you that the green RX marker doesn't stand out ... but I'm
>> curious as to why that's a problem for you, if you are talking about FT8 on
>> HF anyway (you didn't mention how you are using WSJT-X).
>>
>> The software simultaneously decodes all the signals it can across the whole
>> waterfall, and automatically moves the green bar over the station we are
>> currently working, so there is little to no advantage in us manually moving
>> the green marker. It's vaguely useful to be able to see whether or not
>> another station is transmitting a response back to me, prior to their
>> message being decoded, and it's useful to track decodes from some wanted DX
>> station in the right hand pane but other than that I mostly ignore the green
>> marker, letting it jump around as it likes.
>>
>> I gather the software makes more of an effort to decode weak sigs at the
>> green marker frequency but in practice (on HF with FT8) I don't notice any
>> difference. It doesn't seem to matter. [I haven't tested that objectively
>> - it's just my subjective opinion.]
>>
>> The red TX marker, on the other hand, does need to be placed manually on the
>> right spot. So it is good that the red marker stands out visually.
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary ZL2iFB
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dgb <n...@bayland.net> <mailto:n...@bayland.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2018 7:06 a.m.
>> To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: [wsjt-devel] Enhancement request
>>
>> I'm finding the little green marker for receiving to be too small,
>> especially when the waterfall is full of signals. It don't stick out like
>> the red marker. As seconds are critical, spending a second or two to find it
>> can be critical. Would it be possible to increase it's height, like X2?
>>
>> thank you 73 Dwight NS9I
>>
>>
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