Firstly, a big thank-you to Joe and the entire development team for your ongoing efforts in evolving and enhancing the WSJT-X software suite. You really have changed the face of amateur radio (greatly for the better in my opinion!) over the past umpteen years.
I run WSJT-X on a Dell OptiPlex 3070 PC with an i7-9700 3.0GHz CPU, 16G RAM and a 512G SSD. The O/S is 64-bit WIndows 10 (fully up to date). I didn't get round to installing and evaluating any of the earlier release candidates (-rc1 thru -rc3) for v2.6.0 but I have today installed v2.6.0-rc4 and have been using it for a few hours. The basic operation, as far as I've been able to ascertain, seems fine but I have encountered an issue... For many years I've successfully used the 'Configurations' menu option for defining and managing separate configs for different operating scenarios, including 'normal' FT8 mode and FT8 Hound mode. Switching between the different configs has never previously resulted in any 'misbehaviour' of the software, and my successful use of configs has meant that I've never felt the need for main window buttons to select different modes (FT4, FT8 etc) or to toggle Hound mode on and off - in my opinion they're entirely unnecessary. However, they've now been added to the WSJT-X functionality; I expect I'll eventually get used to the presence of the buttons on the main window although I'll probably only very, very rarely use them... :-) When using -rc4 today I've found that switching between my FT8 Hound and normal FT8 configs doesn't behave as expected, presumably since the introduction of the 'H' button. I was operating using my normal FT8 config and then selected and switched to my FT8 Hound config in order to work a DXpedition station; when the WSJT-X switchover and restart had happened I found that I had to click on the 'H' button to enable the Hound mode that had always previously become active after switching to my FT8 Hound configuration. The need to click on the 'H' button hasn't subsequently been necessary when switching from the normal FT8 config to the FT8 Hound config so the activation of the 'H' button now seems to have been correctly recorded in my FT8 Hound config. Then, when I had successfully worked the DXpedition as a Hound I selected and switched back to my normal FT8 configuration, only to find that after the restart the 'H' button is still shown as active and some of the Hound-mode main window options (eg. Rx All Freqs) are displayed although the Hound annunciator isn't displayed. I have to deselect the 'H' button in order to revert to the normal FT8 config. This misbehaviour happens every time I switch from my FT8 Hound config back to my normal FT8 config. I've done a very quick check by switching through some of my other configs which include contest-specific configs, eg. for WW-Digi and the RSGB FT4 contest series, and they all seem to switch correctly and behave as expected, so it would appear that it's only the switching back from my FT8 Hound config to my normal FT8 config that's misbehaving. I'll be grateful if this adverse effect on the switching between a Hound and a non-Hound config when running v2.6.0-rc4 could be investigated and remedied. 73, and thanks in advance. -- Martin Davies G0HDB On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 15:09, Joe Taylor via wsjt-devel < wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear WSJT-X Users, > > We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc4 is > ready for download by beta testers. A list of its essential changes from > previous releases can be found in the Release Notes: > https://physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt > > Links for downloading WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc4 can be found on the WSJT-X Home > Page, https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html > Scroll down to find "Candidate release: WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc4". > > An installation file for macOS is not presently available. One will be > posted as soon as possible. > > We hope you will enjoy using this beta release of WSJT-X 2.6.0. As a > beta tester you should report on your experiences with its new features, > successful and otherwise, on one of the relevant WSJT forums. Bugs > should be reported by following instructions found here in the User Guide: > > > https://www.physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.6.0-rc4.html#_bug_reports > >
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