Re: LF: SlowJT9 v0.9.02

[N1BUG <paul@n1bug.com>]

Eric brings up a good point. Forget what I said the other day about
beaconing with a U3S to be received by SlowJT9. I believe that won't
work because the U3S uses the original JT9-2, -5, -10, -30 symbol
lengths which are different.

Probably (a guess) in the original, symbol lengths were chosen to
fill as much of the period as possible while leaving enough time at
the end for decoding. I would further guess there were specific
decoders for each submode, or one decoder whose parameters could be
modified for the current submode.

73,
Paul N1BUG


On 11/12/18 2:47 PM, Rik Strobbe wrote:
> Hello Eric,
> 
> 
> yes, a scale factor of 2 and 5 is used.
> 
> I hadn't any information about the old JT9-2 and JT9-5 modes and
> those scale factors seemed the most straightforward to me and
> make the conversion to JT9 easy.
> 
> 
> 73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________ Van:
> owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
> <owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org> namens Eric NO3M
> <no3m@no3m.net> Verzonden: maandag 12 november 2018 19:03 Aan:
> rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; rsgb_lf_group@yahoogroups.co.uk 
> Onderwerp: Re: LF: SlowJT9 v0.9.02
> 
> Rik
> 
> SlowJT9 won't run in Wine in Linux, nothing particularly useful
> was output on the command-line.  I tried using an old version of
> WSJTX (0.95 r 3278) but seems there is some protocol
> incompatibility.
> 
> The original JT9 submodes specs give:
> 
> Symbol Length:
> 
> JT9-1 0.58s JT9-2 1.28s JT9-5 3.41s
> 
> Is your program using a 2x and 5x scale factor for JT9-2 and
> JT9-5 respectively?  If that is the case, the symbol lengths will
> be different than the original specs and old versions of WSJTX
> will not be compatible.
> 
> 73 Eric NO3M
> 
> 
> On 11/12/18 10:59 AM, Rik Strobbe wrote:
> 
> I just uploaded a new beta version of SlowJT9:
> 
> 
> v0.9.02 [12 Nov 2018] Bug fixes: - Non fatal bug that that
> corrupted the cycle calculation fixed. Changes: - Calculation of
> the report (dB) corrected for JT9-2 and JT9-5. - Beta version
> message changed (ignore option added).
> 
> 73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T ?