mastodon 4.7.3Enjoying a teenage hobby I retook in 2019, but now with proper licenses and call signs and more than 40 years older. Improving my CW and teaching others at the #CWAcademy and enjoying SOTA and QRP, and sometimes satellites. I love the 4 m band when it's open — not much done recently; 6 m is great too! PMR446 as a gateway to ham radio. Proprietary digital modes (DMR, YSF, ROS, VARAC, LoRa...) are not proper ham radio (ask me why).
CWops #3765 SKCC #29523.
#FT2, "the fastest mode" is currently only available on Windows and there is no source code. It should not be in our bands like that.
I joined Mastodon.radio some years ago and started following mostly hams and almost exclusively radio users. I only favour but never (almost never) boost non-radio posts. I post radio stuff almost exclusively. In spite of all that, my timeline is full of non-radio stuff: computers, AI, politics,... Is there something I've done wrong? Or is ham radio a sideshow for many of the accounts I follow?
Together with Xisco, EC6PG, I teach #cw courses in #catalan at the #cwacademy #cwopsAcademy. The CW Academy does not offer any courses in #spanish yet, but there are people who keep asking for them. If a Spanish-speaking ham out there is willing to teach (advise) a course, We have Beginners and Fundamental courses prepared, with all materials in Catalan (a sister language), and complete planning notes for advisors, and we're happy to share them; maybe they can be translated easier. Contact me.
@vk6flab #FT2 OK, Martino IU8LMC came back to me. He basically says:
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I really can't get the hang of this software development style.
https://github.com/lquesada/qFT8/issues/11#issuecomment-4232616467
If the modified WSJT-X software communicates with the proprietary FT2 encoder/decoder via a formal, documented interface (like a pipe, a socket, or a command-line argument), they are often considered separate programs.
If Martino and colleagues added a generic plugin architecture to WSJT-X that could be used by anyone writing "plugins" similar to the one they wrote FT2, and then happens to use it for their proprietary tool, it would be harder to prove a breach.
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