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Ideally, you would have a read-through of the manual and help from an experienced op. At the Tampa ARC, we have several rigs available, with a pdf of the operating manuals available on the computer at each position. With new ops, I like to show them the features of the radio - while the new op is the operator of said rig - we would have the pdf pulled up and set to the relevant page. You get tactile training, visual training, and aural training as the op can hear the results of the changes they make to the rig. That way we avoid the Amateur Extra who cannot turn on a radio (yes, it happened to me; I had a new AE ask me how to turn on a radio). Michael, it is really not asking too much of an experienced op to read their manual, period. After reading, if they don’t understand – or are simply not sure about - what they’ve read, the puzzled op can access YouTube, send messages to great user groups such as this one, get on the local repeater with their buddies, call a friend, check with the local club, ad infinitum - and get an answer; not always the best answer or even the correct one, but an answer nonetheless -) ……………………… Your first step should be to “ read the ___ manual” (you can place a rude adjective in front of manual if you wish) 73 de Lee KX4TT From: Fred Price [mailto:n...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 25 June, 2019 08:57 To: Black Michael <mdblac...@yahoo.com>; WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Field Day time problem Michael, I been teaching other hams for a lot of years. I been a ham for 34+ years. Sorry but I disagree about reading the manual. Almost at least if not more then 75% of questions I'm asked are in the manual and or any release notes and yes I read everything that the WSJT dev group puts out. I could go on but I feel this list isn't the place to do this. Thanks, Fred N2XK On Jun 25, 2019 8:06 AM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > wrote: It's completely reasonable (or should I say expected) that when one installs software that it "works". In particular for the common operating mode. I've found the most you can expect from an operator with 40+ years of ops is that they know how to turn on their rig and plug in cables. They will know nothing about how to do any audio settings, bandwidth, data rates, serial ports, CAT control, timing requirements, never seen a waterfall, and have no real understanding of suppressed carrier audio.....there's lots to learn if all you've ever done is phone & CW. It should not require a user to read (and completely understand) a 25,000-word manual -- that's asking and expecting far too much. Try taking a teaching attitude -- if there's something you can teach the operator that's one of the major goals of this hobby and life in general. So my idea is simply to give the user an indication when their time is obviously off and educate them in the hopes that they will then educate others. de Mike W9MDB On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 06:52:55 AM CDT, Fred Price <n...@hotmail.com <mailto:n...@hotmail.com> > wrote: Because it seems a lot of ops want a set it and forget it piece of software. The things I read on this list that ops want WSJT to do amazes me. _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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