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

[Stephen Bloom]

RTTY Contesting is decades old.  There is an *art* to digital contesting, especially in non error correcting modes.  The entry cost as compared to cw in terms of being able to participate is of course lower, but to be good, requires a set of skills that are more than just running software.

73
Steve KL7SB


-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Paul O'Kane
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2019 1:07 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Fwd: [wsjtgroup] WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6


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:
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> -------- 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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