Re: [wsjt-devel] Omnirig 1.19 & WSJT-X 2.0.1 55 Hz artifact

[Mike <bio...@gm...>]

Well, that's not what he says and I have no idea, I'm just reporting the
issue. He said he'd be in touch with your developers. I just want to make
sure it's been seen. Thanks.

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 7:27 AM Black Michael via wsjt-devel <
wsj...@li...> wrote:

> If it works in 1.16 and doesn't in 1.19 then it would seem to be OmniRig
> and not WSJT-X.  Alex must've broken it.
>
> That frequency test has been in there for quite a while (a couple years
> perhaps?) and nobody else has this problem.  It would indicate OmniRig is
> dropping the frequency change request to return to the requested frequency.
>
>
> de Mike W9MDB
>
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> On Saturday, May 18, 2019, 6:55:01 AM CDT, Mike <bio...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>
> I am forwarding this conversation to amke sure you all know about this ...
>
> I was running Omnirig 1.16 for years. I saw there was a new version (1.19)
> so installed it. Have two rigs in use in Omnirig: FT-450D & IC-7300. Were
> no problems before with Omnirig or the communications to/from the radios.
>
> Now with the new 1.19, suppose the FT-450D is turned on and it's freq.
> display reads 50.313.00. When I start WSJT-X using the new Omnirig it
> changes the frequency to 50.313.05 on the radio display, and WSJT-X shows
> it's 50.313 055. If I use WSJT-X to change bands the "55" Hz never shows up
> again no mater what band I go to. But shut it all down and start over, same
> thing happens.  55 Hz is added to the freq, of the FT-450D.
>
> On the IC-7300, same thing happens at first BUT - I can see the display
> briefly flash an extra 55 Hz on the display, then it goes to the correct
> frequency in an instant most of the time. However, this morning it kept the
> extra 55 Hz on the display of the IC-7300. Changing bands causes the 55 Hz
> to go away from then on (for that operating session) like the FT-450D.
>
> If I go back to the .exe for Omnirig 1.16 - the problems all go away and
> all radios act perfectly fine just as they always did for years. I did not
> change any settings when I switched to the new version to cause this.
> However; after I observed it happen with 1.19 I tried to change various
> settings such as baud rate (also for the radios), time out and other items
> to no avail. In any case it does NOT happen when I go back to Omnirig 1.16.
> Even with different settings. Omnirig 1.16 causes no problems at all.
>
> I wrote the developer of Omnirig and got this response -
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thank you for reporting the problem. The frequency change by 55 Hz is not
> a bug, WSJTX makes this change on startup to determine
> the frequency change step of the radio. The program is supposed to undo
> the change, but for some reason this does not happen. I
> will contact the WSJTX developers to see how we can fix this.
>
> Please note that I released OmniRig 1.19 in order to fix some serious
> problems that WSJTX had with the old version. These
> problems are now fixed, but the glitch you have reported still requires
> correction.
>
> 73 Alex VE3NEA
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