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Release: WSJT-X 2.6.0-rc5
November 29, 2022
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WSJT-X 2.6.0 Release Candidate 5 brings a number of improvements as
well as some bug fixes.

In program WSJT-X:

- Better calibration for FST4/W SNR estimates.

- Upload FST4W-900 spots to wsprnet with TR code 15 instead of 16.

- Improved FT8 decoding on crowded bands.

- The Working frequency table now offers the following options:
- Better handling of more than one frequency per band.
- Set your preferred frequencies, WSJT-X always comes back to these
QRGs when changing band or mode.
- You can label your frequencies with descriptions (e.g. DXp AB0YXZ).
- Option to set Start and End Date/Time, so that the frequencies
automatically appear and disappear. Useful for contest or
DXpedition QRGs.
- Load a frequency table from a file to easily get all such data
implemented.

- In Fox mode, there are now a few additional functions that allow
operators to react even better to different QSO situations:
- A new two-column table in Tab 2 provides a better overview of
the queue and of the callsigns with QSOs in progress.
- Fox operator can now change the ordering of callsigns in the
queue so that he can react if there is only a narrow time slot
for a particular QSO due to propagation.
- Fox now responds for another two cycles to stations whose
report was not received, increasing the success rate for a
difficult QSO.

- Correct a flaw in Hound mode that sometimes prevented completion of
QSOs with non-standard calls.

- Improvements to EME Echo mode:
- New control "Avg" sets the number of Echo cycles to be averaged.
- New capability to display measurements of wideband noise power as
a function of time. This can be useful for measuring Sun noise,
antenna tracking errors, and the like.
- Several minor bug fixes

- Correct a flaw that prevented WSJT-X from always initializing
correctly when special operating activities were enabled.

- Correct a flaw that caused wrong Tx frequencies to be written to
ALL.TXT.

- The GUI has been improved regarding some details. The controls now
scale better at different font sizes and on different operating
systems.

- When in Hound mode and click the "H" button again, the frequency
is now kept. This gives the user the following two options to return
to normal FT8 mode:
- Click the "H" button again. Then you will stay on the QRG.
- Click the "FT8" button (or use the Settings menu). It brings
you back to the default FT8 QRG.

- Decodes flagged as 'a7' are now disabled when "Enable AP" is not
checked, and during the first period after a band change.

- The network address of the UDP server is now checked for errors
before being accepted.

- Some improvements to the DX Lab Suite Commander interface.

- Correct some possible flaws that could cause segfault errors in
certain unusual situations.

- Warnings on dropped audio have been disabled for now, as detection
has turned out to be not reliable enough.

- Correct a long-standing flaw which caused the "Transmit digital gain"
overlay to appear somewhere on the screen.

- "Highlight DX Call" now also works when the other station is <...>.

- CQ messages without a grid are now sent to PSK reporter.

- Several other minor corrections (tool tips, etc.).

Program MAP65 (Windows only) includes several minor bug fixes and two
tentative new features:
- an aid for measuring antenna pointing errors
- an ability to read the file wsjtx.log (kept by WSJT-X) to recognize
EME contest dupes.

Walter/K5WH