[CQ-Contest] Fwd: [wsjtgroup] WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6

[Chuck Dietz]

I don’t have any idea what you are saying here. Are you just bad mouthing
digital modes?

Chuck W5PR

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:55 AM Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com> wrote:

>
> Great - we have yet another data mode.  There is no single data mode that
> is
> "best" in all respects.  It's always a compromise between time, signal
> rate,
> bandwidth and number of discrete channels or tones - the potential
> combinations
> are limitless.
>
> What all data modes (including RTTY) have in common is that they require
> machine decoding.  It seems to me that ham-radio contesters do their own
> decoding, whether it's CW or Phone.  Everything else is data processing
> and,
> increasingly, fully-automated data processing.
>
> Let's leave data modes to the Data-Processing-over-RF apps.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
>
>
>
> On 02/06/2019 19:49, Jim Brown wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject: [wsjtgroup] WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 14:32:20 -0400
> > From: Joe Taylor joe at Princeton.EDU [wsjtgroup]
> > <wsjtgroup-noreply at yahoogroups.com>
> > Reply-To: Joe Taylor <joe at Princeton.EDU>
> > To: wsjtgroup at yahoogroups.com <wsjtgroup at yahoogroups.com>
> >
> > To:   Users of WSJT-X -- especially those interested in radio contesting
> > From: WSJT Development Group
> >
> > As you know, we have been developing a protocol called FT4 for use in
> > radio contesting.  A new version of FT4 is now available for testing
> > in WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6.
> >
> > PLEASE NOTE THAT FT4 IN RELEASE CANDIDATE 6 IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH
> > THAT IN ANY PREVIOUS RELEASE.
> >
> > Therefore: Please stop using WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5.  If you wish to use FT4
> > after today or to take advantage of other recent program corrections
> > or enhancements, you should use WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6.
>
>
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