Il 25/04/22 12:29, Joe Taylor via
wsjt-devel ha scritto:
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.Hello Joe,
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:
Very grateful for being one of the thousands of the enthusiast people around the globe using this amazing software, which allows practically to every amateur radio, having a transceiver, a computer and a small antenna, to be able to communicate worldwide in digital mode.
I'm going to answer to your little poll point by point:
- Building on what platform? Windows, Linux, macOS, or other?I always take the WSJT-X source code and compile here on my Linux 64 bit laptop, running openSUSE Tumbleweed.
I'm not a developer at all, my coding skills are very limited to just some very basic tasks as using scripts and troubleshooting a possible software malfunctions
- What are your particular programming skills and interests?
No, I have just contributed in the past for the translation of the WSJT-X menu in Italian, when Bill, G4WJS was the maintainer of the WSJT-X localization list
- Are you making changes to the code? If so, toward what end?
As I told previously I'm not a developer, nor I have enough skill to analyze the code, but I gave a little more "insights" to the serial ports management, in order to control my transceiver through WSJT-X
- 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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