Hey all, My background is IT infrastructure with some code development and I although I have been active in the amateur radio community for less than a year, given my software, IT infrastructure background, and electronics background I have been assisting my local amateur radio community in all aspects of computer interfacing to radios. First off, I am really impressed with what has been accomplished with WSJT-X and I am an avid user of all digital protocols including FT8, FT8 WSPR and others. I recently attended a DX Club meeting and got to see first hand the resentment towards FT8 in the context of DXCC awards. I never got to speak in defense of FT8 but what I do believe is there is a basic misunderstanding on the fact that WSJT-X’s success is much about the interface that WSJT-X provides to managing QSO’s. “Ease of digital use” is completely missed on much of our older amateur radio community yet the same operators have fully embraced RTTY as a digital protocol.
I would like to propose adding RTTY to WSJT-X for two reasons 1. As a means to reframe the DXCC discussion away from FT8 itself to “it’s just a UI for managing QSO’s”, and 2. I believe WSJT-X would be a great tool for RTTY. From an implementation perspective it may be possible to run interval and interval less with RTTY with the WSJT-X UI. Regards Dwayne Sinclair NA6US Redondo Beach, CA _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
