Thanks to Bill, G4WJS and Laurie, VK3AMA for the answer on how to get
Multicasting working and for the reason why the changes were made to the
settings.

73,
Rich - K1HTV

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:28 PM <[email protected]>
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> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:08:11 +1100
> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Multicast with 2.3.0-rc3
> The WSJT-X 2.3.0-rc's introduced a new outgoing interface selector for
> multicast UDP (Reporting tab of the WSJT-X Settings). You need to have a
> loopback interface selected and then tell JTAlert that your using UDP
> Multicast on the Loopback via the "Settings" menu , top most entry. This is
> a departure from the traditional JTAlert automatic setting of the necessary
> parameters as there is now no reliable way to determine the WSJT-X settings
> and if the loopback interface is being used
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> de Laurie VK3AMA
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> On 10/01/2021 9:46 am, Rich - K1HTV wrote:
>
> With WSJT-X version 2.2.2 I had been successfully using multicat with
> WSJT-X passing UDP packets simultaneously to JTAlert, GridTracker and QLog,
> a program developed for blind Hams to make FT8 & FT4 QSOs. I was using a
> USP server address of 239.255.0.1 with port 2237.
>
> In version 2.3.0-rc3, using this address and port, multicasting does not
> work with any of the programs. I tried the 224.0.0.1 with port 2237 as
> described in the latest release notes, but that doesn't work either.
>
> After running for a few minutes, JTALert displayed this message box:
> [image: image.png]
>
> Am I the only one experiencing this problem. Any clue why? Thanks.
>
> For now with WSJT-X version 2.3.0-rc3 I'm stuck with only using one add-on
> program at a time to receive UDP packets using 127.0.0.1 Port 2237, which
> still works fine.
>
> 73,
> Rich - K1HTV
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