Hi Reino, Before I answer your questions, a few general comments. WSJTX has internally several timers that keep all processes clean and prevent unwanted effects. The normal user doesn't even notice all this, and that's intended. This is exactly how it should be with the new Tune watchdog. If you use the Tune button for what it is intended for, you will not notice the Tune watchdog.
Another important point is that it has always been our policy to keep the WSJTX code as simple and robust as possible. This was very important to Bill (sk) as well! Therefore it would be too much of a good thing to make a tune watchdog adjustable. It is only there to protect your transceiver (and the bands) from unintended long term transmissions. But since there are obviously users who use the Tune button for other purposes and need continuous transmissions, I reprogrammed it this morning so that you can disable the Tune watchdog with a checkbox “Disable Tune watchdog” (see the screen shot of my current development version). The checkbox is not set by default, because only in this way users, who are not even aware that there is such a thing, get the protection. The others need only ONCE to activate the checkbox and everything is as before (of course WSJTX remembers the status of the checkbox). To answer your questions: 1. The new Tune watchdog and the existing Tx watchdog work independent of each other. 2. and 3. No, see my comment above about this. (I have now set the Tune watchdog to 90 seconds. This should not damage any transceiver and the time should also be sufficient for any ATU.) 4. The Tx watchdog remains unchanged. This means that if you have e.g. the Tx watchdog on 6 minutes, your normal transmissions will stop after 6 minutes, but the Tune watchdog would disable the Tune button after 90 seconds. If you set the Tx watchdog to 1 minute, then Tune would also be turned off after 1 minute, or to be more precise: exactly at the next full minute. As before. But if you set the Tx watchdog to let’s say 30 minutes and have "Disable Tune watchdog" activated, then you could theoretically transmit continuously for 30 minutes with the help of the Tune button. As it was before. I hope it has now become clear. No one needs to be afraid of the new Tune watchdog, but it will help thousands to protect their transceivers from unintentional continuous transmissions. The function has worked well for my own WSJTX fork for 1.5 years now. It is based on repeated user requests. And I have also received several "thank you" emails from other OMs who had sometimes accidentally sent 1 hour or so in the past. 73 de Uwe DG2YCB Von: Reino Talarmo via wsjt-devel [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Montag, 7. März 2022 06:03 An: 'WSJT software development' Cc: Reino Talarmo Betreff: Re: [wsjt-devel] SUGGESTION >Then let's make it switchable.The majority of users will certainly find a Tune >watchdog useful and want to have it activated, but those who don't like it can >then simply switch it off. Good solution. Hi Uwe, How that new Tune watchdog will interact with the current Tx watchdog? 1. Would it be totally independent? 2. Would there be a selectable tuning time in some range, say up to a minute or even 99 minutes? 3. If tuning time will be selectable, will it be selected at “Hit time” or in the same manner as Tx watch dog by a menu setting in General window? 4. If tuning time is not activated, will TX be on for even or will Tx watchdog still cut the transmission as it does in current version? And of course you may Halt transmission at any time. Would that happen with Tune button as today or only with the Halt Tx button? Sorry for too many questions on a simple issue, hi! 73, Reino OH3mA
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