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Locked Re: hearing voices #FT8

Michael E Wilson Sr <ke5wct@...>
 

It is a carry over from my 26 years as a Naval communicator. I learned to listen to my receive signal in the background, and would know when a problem arose and it was time to qsy to new freq. I also monitor my tx at very low levels, helping to solve a problem as soon as possible. 


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:11 AM Bob McGraw - K4TAX <rmcgraw@...> wrote:

When working  digital modes, why have the volume turned up on the receiver?   If someone is transmitting voice in a Digital or CW band, it is their problem and and the Monitoring Services and FCC can and will deal with it. 


73
Bob, K4TAX





Locked Re: hearing voices #FT8

Bob McGraw - K4TAX
 

When working  digital modes, why have the volume turned up on the receiver?   If someone is transmitting voice in a Digital or CW band, it is their problem and and the Monitoring Services and FCC can and will deal with it. 


73
Bob, K4TAX


Locked Re: FST4W and Split on 20

Bill Somerville
 

On 30/09/2020 16:43, David Larrabee via groups.io wrote:
This issue didn't happen on 630 Meters using the K3 at 160mtrs w/ Transverter...

Attempt to run FST4W on 20 meters....:
 - added 14.0956 MHz to fqcy list for FST4W
 - receiving side looks fine, VFO A on expected fqcy and graphically the waterfall shows WSPR emitters in the expected passband.
       (No decodes though so I assume no one was running the new variant.)
 - K3 goes to split showing XMT vfo B at -500 Hz below VFO A.
 - ON XMT my spectrum anlzr shows energy is about 700 Hz above the desired fqcy or about 1200 Hz above the displayed VFO B split fqcy.

I played with this for a while and was unable to correct.

Went to conventional WSPR and both rcv and xmt act normally (No split) with data appearing on the WSPRNet.org DB for both transmit and receive events...

Hope I'm not steering someone on a wild goose chase, i may have missed something obvious.......

/Dave K1BZ
Hi Dave,

I believe this is a defect that has been repaired for the next release. Try moving your Tx offset in FSTW4 mode, and moving back. Does that correct the transmitted frequency?

73
Bill
G4WJS.


Locked FST4W and Split on 20

David Larrabee
 

This issue didn't happen on 630 Meters using the K3 at 160mtrs w/ Transverter...

Attempt to run FST4W on 20 meters....:
 - added 14.0956 MHz to fqcy list for FST4W
 - receiving side looks fine, VFO A on expected fqcy and graphically the waterfall shows WSPR emitters in the expected passband.  
       (No decodes though so I assume no one was running the new variant.)
 - K3 goes to split showing XMT vfo B at -500 Hz below VFO A.
 - ON XMT my spectrum anlzr shows energy is about 700 Hz above the desired fqcy or about 1200 Hz above the displayed VFO B split fqcy.

I played with this for a while and was unable to correct.

Went to conventional WSPR and both rcv and xmt act normally (No split) with data appearing on the WSPRNet.org DB for both transmit and receive events...

Hope I'm not steering someone on a wild goose chase, i may have missed something obvious.......

/Dave K1BZ


Locked Re: FST4 Error Box. "Audio Source Reduce System Load"

Al Groff
 

Bill,
  Just an FYI...
  I have seen this popup on a system that uses an AMD Radeon RX580 display adapter with only display ports ( no HDMI ). 
  At the time I was running two instances of 2.3.0Rc1 (ft8) from the Flex6600.  I have seen this popup message only on the one instance of WSJTX that was monitoring 6m FT8 ( not much activity on 6 these days ).

AL, K0VM



On 9/30/2020 9:31 AM, Bill Somerville wrote:

On 30/09/2020 15:17, Dick Anderson via groups.io wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the response. In this instance I was using a Yaesu FTdx3000 internal soundcard connected via USB Silicon Labs CP2105 driver version 10.1.9.2677 to a Dell Inspiron 3470. I did add a second video card in order to use a second monitor. The display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce GT710. Both monitors are connected via HDMI. The error occurred after the software had been running awhile. I had FST4 running on the GT710 adapter and FST4W was running on the internal Dell adapter which is an Intel UHD Graphics 630. The Latency test is certainly pointing toward the NVIDIA adapter. I did not get an error message after running both instances last night.

73 Dick KE7A

Hi Dick,

thanks for the extra info. I don't believe that the monitor particular applications are displayed on is pertinent, more that HDMI carries a USB audio stream which seems to get disconnected when the monitor is put into power saving mode. That disconnection may be causing other USB audio streams to be interrupted. This is all guesswork at this stage, but HDMI monitors and Nvidia graphics chips seem to be a common thread.

73
Bill
G4WJS.






Locked Re: FST4 Error Box. "Audio Source Reduce System Load"

Bill Somerville
 

On 30/09/2020 15:17, Dick Anderson via groups.io wrote:
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the response. In this instance I was using a Yaesu FTdx3000 internal soundcard connected via USB Silicon Labs CP2105 driver version 10.1.9.2677 to a Dell Inspiron 3470. I did add a second video card in order to use a second monitor. The display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce GT710. Both monitors are connected via HDMI. The error occurred after the software had been running awhile. I had FST4 running on the GT710 adapter and FST4W was running on the internal Dell adapter which is an Intel UHD Graphics 630. The Latency test is certainly pointing toward the NVIDIA adapter. I did not get an error message after running both instances last night.

73 Dick KE7A
Hi Dick,

thanks for the extra info. I don't believe that the monitor particular applications are displayed on is pertinent, more that HDMI carries a USB audio stream which seems to get disconnected when the monitor is put into power saving mode. That disconnection may be causing other USB audio streams to be interrupted. This is all guesswork at this stage, but HDMI monitors and Nvidia graphics chips seem to be a common thread.

73
Bill
G4WJS.


Locked Re: FST4 Error Box. "Audio Source Reduce System Load"

Dick Anderson
 

Hi Bill,
Thanks for the response. In this instance I was using a Yaesu FTdx3000 internal soundcard connected via USB Silicon Labs CP2105 driver version 10.1.9.2677 to a Dell Inspiron 3470. I did add a second video card in order to use a second monitor. The display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce GT710. Both monitors are connected via HDMI. The error occurred after the software had been running awhile. I had FST4 running on the GT710 adapter and FST4W was running on the internal Dell adapter which is an Intel UHD Graphics 630. The Latency test is certainly pointing toward the NVIDIA adapter. I did not get an error message after running both instances last night.

73 Dick KE7A


Locked Re: FT8 Data

kg4wyagi
 

The ALL.txt file in wsjtx will show you every station you have decoded.

Ed
KG4W


On 9/30/2020 7:37 AM, Dave H wrote:

Hi,

Yes, I have had reporting switched on since install in August.
I'm not looking for QSO data, that is in my log's.

I have been testing a small magloop, indoors,

I wanted to get the data so I can compare the SNR's of all "I" have heard
to what SNR "I" have been heard at.

73 - G8LIY






Locked Re: Any progress on WSJT-X running on Ubuntu 20.something?

Mike
 

likewise, i have built from source on both Xubuntu 20.04. and the raspi arm64 'headless' build where i added the xfce4 desktop, just follow the recipe and it works wonderfully.

 


Locked Re: Missing grids

Bill Somerville
 

On 30/09/2020 14:39, groups.io@... wrote:
I took a look in the wsjt adi file this morning (I was contesting last night and wanted to check that the re-merge had worked) and I noticed a couple of entries where there was no grid square "logged".

I output from wsjt-x to HRD logger, or more to the point it listens for wsjt-x log output and in all of the cases the grid was logged in hrd logger even though not in the wsjt-x adi.

I went back over the wsgt-x adi file and noticed that I had a lot more blank entries going back quite a way. Is there an easy way to add this nformation back ti the adi file please?

Regards - Terry
Hi Terry,

can you provide an extract of your WSJT-X ALL.TXT file that covers one of the QSOs where your QSO partner's gridsquare was not logged please?

73
Bill
G4WJS.


Locked Missing grids

groups.io@...
 

I took a look in the wsjt adi file this morning (I was contesting last night and wanted to check that the re-merge had worked) and I noticed a couple of entries where there was no grid square "logged".

I output from wsjt-x to HRD logger, or more to the point it listens for wsjt-x log output and in all of the cases the grid was logged in hrd logger even though not in the wsjt-x adi.

I went back over the wsgt-x adi file and noticed that I had a lot more blank entries going back quite a way. Is there an easy way to add this nformation back ti the adi file please?

Regards - Terry


Locked Re: FT8 Data

Sam Birnbaum
 

Hi Dave,

I wrote a program Alltext.exe that was originally designed just to read the All.txt file and find instances of incomplete QSOs so they can be confirmed should I received a request to confirm. As an exercise, I added a SNR analysis component to analyze the SNR of all decoded signals on my end. It is interesting to see the high/low, average and 1 StdDev of the SNR for the same station being decoded within a short time period on the same day and the difference of those numbers on different days. The program can be run while WSJT-X is running and adding records to the All.txt file. The size of the All.txt file is not a factor. The program does not load the file into memory so the memory foot print is very small. There are quite a few number of WSJT-X users who already loaded down this program and it is free. If you wish, you can download it from https://groups.io/g/ProgramsByW2JDB. You will need to first subscribe to it, then go to the files folder and download it. Place it in any folder on your local hard drive. Press the File button, navigate to the folder where the All.txt file is found and select it.

You can display the tail end of the file and select the number of records to display or you can search on the entire file.
If given the start/end dates for a particular QSO by entering the call signs you are looking for, the search will take less than 1 second regardless of the size of the file.

There are no special installations requirement. There is some additional documentation on the program written by Rich K1HTV targeting the blind hams that use this program as well.

There is an additional PSKReporter function that allows you to download the last 5 minutes of spots from PSKReporter and display either a summary data for each reported spot or detail data display all the stations that spotted the same call sign. That function can be reran every 10 minutes as I purposely limited the amount of data I wanted to download within a short time period.

73,


Sam W2JDB



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave H <xwebsubs@...>
To: main@WSJTX.groups.io
Sent: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 8:31 am
Subject: Re: [WSJTX] FT8 Data

Hi Sam,
That is true on a per exchange basis...
But after a couple of weeks of testing I want to test out an observation.
I need to get all my data since mid August 

73, Dave



Locked Re: FT8 Data

Dave H
 

Hi Sam,

That is true on a per exchange basis...

But after a couple of weeks of testing I want to test out an observation.

I need to get all my data since mid August 

73, Dave


Locked Re: FT8 Data

Sam Birnbaum
 

Hi Dave,

That may not give a true comparisons unless you can normalize
their noise level and transmit power to yours.

73,

Sam W2JDB



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave H <xwebsubs@...>
To: main@WSJTX.groups.io
Sent: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 7:37 am
Subject: Re: [WSJTX] FT8 Data

Hi,
Yes, I have had reporting switched on since install in August.
I'm not looking for QSO data, that is in my log's.
I have been testing a small magloop, indoors,
I wanted to get the data so I can compare the SNR's of all "I" have heard
to what SNR "I" have been heard at.

73 - G8LIY



Locked Re: FST4 Error Box. "Audio Source Reduce System Load"

Bill Somerville
 

On 30/09/2020 05:34, Dick Anderson via groups.io wrote:
Ran FST4 and FST4W overnight. Got the same error message on both instances (same rig/computer) "Audio Source Reduce System Load." In the drop down details box. "Excessive dropped samples - 454848 (9.476sec) audio frames dropped in period starting 10:29." Running version 2004 of Windows. The software did not freeze up or stop working. Ran a latency test and made sure all power saving options turned off in Windows and the Bios but the latency test still turns red every now and then. So far no error messages this session. Running 630m.
Hi Dick,

this new message has been added in WSJT-X v2.3.0 so we can discover how many users are not getting clean audio streams. There could be several possible causes. Tell us more about your setup like what your rig is and how it is connected to you PC for audio in and out please?

If you are only getting the message once, maybe just after starting WSJT-X, you can dismiss it and ignore it, but if it happens often then it is reporting that 5 or more seconds of input audio samples are unaccounted for, which is highly likely to disrupt decoding of signals.

One possible issue that has shown up is power saving on some HDMI monitor setups, it seems it may not be possible to disable power saving with these on certain graphics chips.

73
Bill
G4WJS.


Locked Re: FT8 Data

Dave H
 

Hi,

Yes, I have had reporting switched on since install in August.
I'm not looking for QSO data, that is in my log's.

I have been testing a small magloop, indoors,

I wanted to get the data so I can compare the SNR's of all "I" have heard
to what SNR "I" have been heard at.

73 - G8LIY


Locked Re: Loss Of Auto Turn-on Of Radio With WSJT-X Start-up

Tom Melvin
 

You asked this in the JTAlert forum yesterday 


Mike W9MDB gave answer - posted here just in case others are looking:


You now have to add a hamlib_settings.json file in the same place as WSJT-X.ini

It should contain this

{
     "config": {
             "auto_power_on": "1"
     }
}


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73

Tom
GM8MJV (IO85)





On 29 Sep 2020, at 22:42, Thomas Webb <tmwebb@...> wrote:

Repost:  Just loaded Ver 2.16.13 without incident.  However, I just loaded WSJT-X Ver 2.3 Rc-1.  With this combination, I no longer have the automatic radio turn-on feature.  Is there some function in one or both programs that needs to be activated to regain this function?

Tom WA9AFM/5




Locked Loss Of Auto Turn-on Of Radio With WSJT-X Start-up

Thomas Webb
 

Repost:  Just loaded Ver 2.16.13 without incident.  However, I just loaded WSJT-X Ver 2.3 Rc-1.  With this combination, I no longer have the automatic radio turn-on feature.  Is there some function in one or both programs that needs to be activated to regain this function?

Tom WA9AFM/5


Locked Re: [v2.2.2] Failure to log contest QSOs #IssueReport #ContestMode

Drew Vonada-Smith K3PA <drew@...>
 

John,

This isn't a mater of believe or not believe.  To fix a problem, the developer needs to be able to reproduce it.  To reproduce it, he needs information from you.  Sometimes that information may be a pain in the neck for you to obtain.  It's up to you to decide it it's worth the effort.  If it is, keep answering questions until resolution is reached.  If it isn't, drop it wihtout predjudice.  You should expect the deveoper to suggest common misuse cases as a likely scenario for you to investigate.  He'd be foolish not to do that, as it is the usual cause.  Being insulted by that fact is unproductive. 

Screaming that you have a problem and "they won't fix it" is naive and won't help anyone.

73,

Drew K3PA 


Locked Re: FT8 Data

Bill Lederer
 

It doesn't record who you  worked. It only records who heard you, and who you heard (if you have reporting turned on)

w8lvn

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:04 PM Dave H <xwebsubs@...> wrote:

Thanks...

I have seen that...

It does have who "I" have spotted, and "Who's" spotted me, it's in ADIF, not sure how to separate what I want out of it..??

Also it's one week, was looking for 1 month...

Thanks






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