Errr, if the other guy's signal is suffering interference at your end, why
would YOU change frequency, Scott? In those circumstances, he's the one who
should QSY!
I agree with the general point, though, that there are times when it's nice
to know where the green marker is on the waterfall so a little more contrast
would help.
73
Gary ZL2iFB
From: Scott Davis <s...@radiostationexp.net>
Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2018 3:14 p.m.
To: WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Enhancement request
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 <mailto: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 <mailto:n...@bayland.net> <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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