Hey, I know, let’s reinvent JS8call!  8*)

73, Willie N1JBJ

> On May 23, 2024, at 3:10 PM, Joe via wsjt-devel 
> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> How about,
> 
> OK we can have up to 13 Charaters right?
> How about, 65?
> 
> The Transmit transmits in FOX mode 5 streams.
> the recv decodes all 5 and re assembles them on order of frequency. low to 
> high.
> 
> Joe WB9SBD
> 
> On 5/23/2024 1:02 PM, aa8sh--- via wsjt-devel wrote:
>> Hello Fellows from Clark AA8SH, 
>> 
>> I'm looking for feedback on enhanced chat functionality for WSJTX. 
>> 
>> Rather than using 13 characters of free text to form a single expression, 
>> please consider a system that uses 13 characters to represent 12 CHOICES OF 
>> expression.  This would allow a single pass of free text to "send" as many 
>> as 12 expressions without actually sending the expressions, greatly reducing 
>> throughput.  
>> 
>> The system would allow end users to sequentially navigate through a decision 
>> tree of available expressions. As the end user does so, the software 
>> compiles an alphanumeric word which is 36 characters deep (A-Z 0-9) and 12 
>> placeholders wide, accommodating as many as 4.738381338×10¹⁸ choices of 
>> expression.
>> 
>> The rough proposal:
>> 
>> 1) An online expression lookup table is populated by end users with 
>> expressions--words, phrases, or sentences. Updates are made available to end 
>> users weekly so that users can QSO while offline.
>> 
>> 2) An online decision tree refers to the expressions in the lookup table.  
>> The decision tree is continuously optimized by AI for maximum intuitive 
>> navigation by end users.  Updates are made available to users weekly so that 
>> users can QSO while offline.
>> 
>> 3) Local installed software writes into and reads from the WSJTX Free Text 
>> pane.  Use of 12 sequential conditional dropdowns of 36 choices each results 
>> in an alphanumeric word that is 12 placeholders wide and 36 characters deep. 
>>        
>> 
>> 4)The first placeholder of the created alphanumeric word is to be reserved 
>> for the wildcards +/- which are used to let the receiving software know 
>> which updated release was used for encoding.  + might represent this week's 
>> release, - this month's release, / this quarter's release.  This would allow 
>> a station that has been offline for up to three months to use the system.
>> 
>> 5) If an end user is online, the local software forwards each transmitted 
>> alphanumeric word to AI for decision tree optimization.  If an end user is 
>> offline, all created alphanumeric words are logged, then transmitted to AI 
>> when next online.  In my opinion, this is the most powerful aspect of the 
>> entire proposal.  Probably a huge lift to implement, but extremely powerful, 
>> once implemented.  If end users populate the database with expressions and 
>> AI arranges those into an intuitive decision tree, the resulting system 
>> would be robust.
>> 
>> 6) I leave matters of software functionality to the experts.  I dimly 
>> imagine resting a cursor on a received alphanumeric word, then seeing a 
>> dialog box of text pop up.  That would be nice!
>> 
>> So, my questions to the group.  Is it worth doing?  Would anyone use it?  Is 
>> it a waste of time?  Does it run counter to the purpose of WSJTX?  I'm 
>> looking for brutally honest feedback.  If the consensus is this is a 
>> non-starter, then it's a non-starter.  But if there is a way forward, please 
>> direct me in that way.
>> 
>> Very Respectfully Submitted
>> 
>> Clark AA8SH
>> 
>> 
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