Re: [wsjt-devel] Someone released an Auto CQ mod - and Neil's 2 cents

[Neil Z. <ne...@te...>]

Hi Wolfgang,

glad to hear your view from across the pond, however, in the US any sort
of 'autobot' is illegal as these are not operating as beacons, but as
stations with 2 way communications.   You have to have a human behind
the rig/monitor to control the station here.

I may have conflated the eBay posting with the QRZ posting, but with
them popping up (so to speak) within days of one another it seemed to be
a bit more than just a coincidence, although it turns out it was.

73s,

Neil, KN3ILZ

On 4/1/2019 3:40 AM, Wolfgang wrote:
> Re: [wsjt-devel] Someone released an Auto CQ mod - and Neil's 2 cents
> Hello Neil,
>
> you mix up your personal view of the scenario!
>
> - long time ago there was a Ham in Greece, made some robot add-ons with
> a keyboard macro language and after revealing his activities he was
> blocked
> by the WSJT-X team in the source code ;-) The case can be found in the
> [wsjt-devel] email archive.
>
> - the one on ebay is (was) written in a macro language (most probably
> 'AutoHotkey') and compiled into binaries. This guy inserts the buyers
> call
> sign into the macro-code to prevent sharing the software, but the
> seller stayed
> anonymous. This was an add-on, or external software, simulates key
> strokes
> etc. without any change in the source code or binaries of WSJT-X at all.
> Apparently the person wanted to make money with his external add-on
> software.
> Questionable software, but not illegal in some contries. Offer has
> been removed
> in ebay listings. Bad luck, business model lasted short ;-)
>
> - SQ9FVE modified the source code and added some interresting
> functions plus
> the optional robot function and a change of the GUI in WSJT-X. He
> published
> the binaries in the QRZ.COM forum for free. This was clearly a breach
> of GPL,
> because he did not publish the source code and mentioned originators
> of the
> source etc. etc. Download link has been removed.
>
> Looks like 'a storm in a glass of water' right now...
>
> There is a huge number of WSJT-X users with a very wide spectrum of
> personalities
> around the globe. Right now, this local monday morning in Europe,
> pskreporter.info
> lists the impressive number of 519.066 FT8 counts over the last two
> hours :-)
>
> So, some have fear of clones, some want to run their robots. But those
> are only
> a few of them. Sooner or later all this will be history.
>
> 73's de OE1MWW
> Wolfgang
>
> Monday, April 1, 2019, 2:51:59 AM, you wrote:
>
>
> There was some 'rage' Joe .. but those people were few and far
> between, and after a few days they were recognized, and the callsign
> was passed around as a 'bot' and ignored by many.
>
> However, now you have someone who is modifying the code to do this
> and, according to the eBay post will 'personalize' the code with your
> callsign, then sell you the compiled program.
>
> Different scenario !!
>
> Neil, KN3ILZ
>
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