[ADXA] My thoughts on WSJT-X's future

[WB5JJJ]

OK, this is not totally DX, but of late, it's become a major contributor to
the DX chasers worldwide.  But after 50+ hamming, I'm asking for a little
forgiveness.

I'm running the latest "Developer" or "Enhanced" (WSJT-X v2.7.1-devel) of
WSJTx which has lots of great new bells and whistles.  It's a parallel
development that is said to have some or all of its features eventually
appear in future releases of WSJTx.

I suspect that in the not too distant future, WSJTx will be distributed as
a pre-compiled only program for Windows, MacOS, Linux and the Raspberry
PI's.  So no more open source modules available that can be compiled and
modified in any way.

I have absolutely no "inside information" on this, but I believe the
writing is on the wall.  This will make Laurie's JTA a much easier program
to manage with only one format to work with, so he can build in a lot of
exciting new features into JTA as well.  That's great.

I also expect to see another new "payload" bit count come along that will
make the existing clones of WSJTx quickly unusable as users update WSJTx,
similar to what happened a few years back.  So the problems we've been
seeing of late with "Fake Calls" will disappear.  There is already a
"Reduce false decodes" in this developer version.  I'm wanting to see how
it works on the PJ5/xxx problem in the next few days.  Plus, now I can hide
any call I want, and it won't display in the Band Activity window at all.

Again, I'm speculating that the reason for the WSJTx v2.7.1-rc's are few
and far between the past year so is so these new features can be road
tested first by a more limited number of users.  I'm excited about the
future of WSJTx.

Having said all of this, I still love to run SSB and RTTY, but I'm LAZY.  I
can run WSJTx remotely from my Laz-E-Boy recliner in the living room
remotely, SSB is possible, but not nearly as easy.  RTTY has been run for a
couple of contests using my Linux box beside the Windows box, on my IC-7300
sitting on my recliner footrest and a long antenna cable back to my shack.

73's
George - WB5JJJ
HoIP - 100105
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