[Fourlanders] WSJT-X Version 2

[John Kludt]

All,

I worked the ARRL RTTY Roundup this weekend using FT8 and based on that I
am comfortable saying the conversion to Version 2.0 Is pretty much
complete.  I had a good time, with 260 Q's and 66 multipliers.  I could
have worked more but, alas, I fell asleep  at 02:00 and didn't wake up till
08:00 local time.  The rest of the story is when my wife missed me in bed
at 04:00 she was just sure I had had a heart attack and she would find me
slumped over my radios.  What I had done was pulled my daughters exercise
mat out and curled up on the floor.  Of course, she comes around the corner
and sees me laying on the floor.  Oh,dear, going to take a few dinners and
lots of flowers to smooth this one over!

A few observations:

   - Using 40m as an example the contest crowd and the casual users sorted
   themselves out nicely, causal users at 7074 KHz and contest folks at 7080
   KHz.
   - The contest log that comes out of WSJT-X is very complete and became
   my gold standard against which I checked N1MM
   - Although I didn't get it completely right .N1MM does a nice job of
   scoring and managing dups - there is a bit of work to do here but it works
   very nicely once you understand it and read *all* of the directions.
   - I like the real RST reports that come out of -X.  There is a lot of
   data here that could be mined, analysed and understood.  Most of my Q's
   ranged between 529 and 549 with an occasional 579/589.  Not surprisingly
   589 corresponded with a fire engine red trace on the waterfall.  I ran
   between 50 and 75 watts inot a vertical on 80, 40, 15 and 10 and a dipole
   on 20 meters.  My best DX was a ZL on 20

All good stuff and I really don't think we need to worry about Version
1.9.1 in the contest in two weeks.

Johnny
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