When I started work on WSJT some 21 years ago, my principal goal was to
help bring amateur weak-signal communication techniques into the
twenty-first century -- and in doing so, to help spread knowledge of
modern communication theory into the amateur radio community.
By 2005 WSJT was well established but mostly used for special purposes
like meteor scatter and EME ("moonbounce"). A stable development path
had been established: the program was fully Open Source, licensed under
the GNU General Public License, and it could be built by anyone from
source code using freely available compilers and development tools. At
this time WSJT was coded in a combination of Python, Fortran, and C. A
re-write in 2012 created the present program, WSJT-X, using the Qt
platform and C++ language in addition to Fortran and C.
To help gauge the extent to which my original educational goals are
being met, we in the core development team are interested to know how
many WSJT-X users are currently building the program for themselves,
from source code. If you are doing so, we would appreciate an email
response -- either publicly, to this list, or in a private email to me.
All responses will be appreciated, but particular things you might want
to mention in your message include these:
- Building on what platform? Windows, Linux, macOS, or other?
- What are your particular programming skills and interests?
- Are you making changes to the code? If so, toward what end?
- What portions of the code have you studied well enough to understand?
Many thanks -- I look forward to hearing from you!
-- 73, Joe, K1JT
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