Hi Joe,
I'd like to echo my appreciation for your significant contribution to
Amateur Radio. To your questions:
- I have built WSJT-X on Ubuntu for every 2.x.x version
- I'm a retired wireless engineer, primarily in development of embedded
Linux and real-time control systems. I've also published two Android apps,
WSJT-X Monitor and Monitor Pro, which act as UDP collectors for WSJT-X.
- I haven't made any significant changes to your code.
- I am familiar with wsprd source, having used it stand-alone. I guess I'm
also familiar with your Fortran code to compute distance/azimuth from grid
squares. I converted it to Java to use in my app.
Tom
On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 9:02 AM Joe Taylor via wsjt-devel <
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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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