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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:57:13 -0400
From: Joe Taylor <joe@Princeton.EDU>
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Subject: Re: LF: WSJTX 01r2702 JT9
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G3XBM wrote:
> Running the new version I had the program crash out after about 3 minutes.
> I had sent one cycle of JT9-2 (CQ G3XBM) on 500kHz and was receiving in the
> next slot only to have the whole window close. Tried it a second time and
> had the same issue again.

Comments like "the program crashed" are not very helpful by themselves. 
  (Needless to say, the program has not crashed for me, or I would not 
have release it.)

Please do what you can to establish a reproducible method leading to the 
bug you have found.  Explain what the program was doing, just before it 
died.  Ideally, run the program from a command-prompt window and report 
any error message left behind.


Now, a few last comments before I go QRT.  Please note: I may be QRT for 
some days, owing to the very big storm just now arriving.

1. Does anyone besides Eddie see "ghost signals" in the sequence 
following reception of a stropng signal?  If so, please document what 
you see and save example *.wav files.

2. Re suggestion by Andy, G4JNT: It seems to me that the MF/LF group 
needs something like "LiveCQ", a utility used by EME people on 144 MHz. 
  See http://www.livecq.eu/ .  LiveCQ uses output from my program MAP65, 
similar to that also provided by WSJT-X in file wsjtx_rx.log.  The 
LiveCQ program monitors the file and reports decodes of CQ messages to 
the Live CQ web site, where they are displayed.

3. It seems to me that the MF/LF group could also use a "chat page" 
dedicated to bands below 160m.  It's much more efficient than lots of 
emails saying things like "I copy you now", etc.  Something like
http://www.chris.org/cgi-bin/jt65emeA for EME, or perhaps
http://www.on4kst.org/chat/login.php?band=4 for "Low Bands".  However, 
the ON4KST low band page is too full of 1.8 and 3.5 MHz traffic.  Maybe 
ON4KST could be persuaded to make one more page, for 500 kHz and down.

The storm here is rather frightening, already, and the worst is yet to 
come.  We in central New Jersey are near the center of the expected 
path.  Here's hoping for the best!

The good news: if we're still here and still EME-capable on Friday, all 
leaves should be off the trees and I should be several dB better off for 
weekend #2 of the ARRL EME contest.  :-)

	-- 73, Joe, K1JT