On 6/7/2025 3:54 PM, Tom Hauer via wsjt-devel wrote:
I am astonished at how anyone with such a lack of knowledge and understanding could even consider criticism of someone who has contributed so much, without asking for anything in return, to our hobby and to the capabilities of radio communication.
It's disappointing that you would attack me personally rather than respond to the issues I've raised. I'm far from ignorant of the issues, active on 6M and HF since 1956, active With multiple WSJT modes since 2011. I contest primarily with CW and RTTY, but also SSB. As a member of the ARRL's Contest Advisory Committee, I was quite actively involved in setting up ARRL's Digital contest, and have been quite supportive of it. I don't do FT8/FT4 contesting myself, because it doesn't turn my crank.
Lack of knowledge and understanding? My education was BSEE, and I've taught it. I've been a contributor to the ARRL Handbook since 2011, the Antenna Book since 2014, and to both editions of N0AX's ARRL Book On Grounding and Bonding. My website, k9yc.com, is full of tutorials on many aspects of ham radio. There are more than 200,000 QSOs in my log since moving to California in 2006. You're my log once. My work on common mode chokes for the MF and HF bands, first published in 2008, and extending in 2018, is groundbreaking. In 2020, I was honored with the ARRL Technical Excellence Award, which carried a nice honorarium that I donated to the NCDXF, an organization that financially supports DXpeditions. I was elected a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society on the basis of important technical work I'd done advancing the state of that art.
I have simply raised a major issue with how the WSJT design team has made ONE mistake. That is NOT an attack, it is raising an issue that needs to be addressed. That's called positive criticism. In my first post on the topic, several days ago, I observed how choice of such a high frequency for 6M FT8 contributed to the demise of CW on the band. of NOT because it was FT8, but because the chosen operating frequency was so high in the band. In a subsequent post, I observed that the chosen 40M FT4 frequency interfered with several groups of users, that I raised the issue when FT4 was in beta, and was ignored. Again, positive criticism, and in time to have corrected the bad call.
When people stop attacking ME without responding to the ISSUE, I will stop responding. I didn't intend this as a thread. I was calling attention to an issue that can easily be corrected by simply setting new standard carrier frequencies in the upcoming releases of the software. And I'd be happy to help write words to users to explain why.
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