[Elecraft] Fwd: New K4 WSJT-X fork for Remote K4 users

[Tim Tucker]

I haven't tested JTAlert - I will do that later and see what happens.

Regarding other things like fonts, buttons, etc. - those are things in the
core WSJT-X app that I didn't change.  So if you're seeing something broken
like fonts being wierd, or buttons doing odd things, I would compare
against the regular RC1 to see if the same behavior exists there...it's all
inherited in my fork.

Re: high SWR indicator - that is an interesting one that I hadn't thought
about: A little research tells me that regular app uses hamlib to get that
info from the rig.  But we're not using hamlib in this build because we're
going direct to the radio, which means I need to account for that.  I'll
get that added to the list of things to address.

One last thing that I DID change that I didn't mention before:  The stock
WSJT-X uses the "power" slider to control audio drive from the PC to the
radio. But that doesn't apply here, so I changed it to control the actual
rig power control.  Keep in mind that the way I implemented the Auto TX
input calibration, it sets the drive level by watching the ALC meter and it
won't increase the audio input drive past an ALC reading of 5 to keep the
signal nice and clean.  So even if you have the power set to 100 watts, you
may actually see something a bit less than that if you're sitting next to
the radio.

Tim

On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM Thomas Sullivan <tomsull at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Tim, I have it up and running, and it's working.  One question though:
> How do you get JTAlert to run?  Is there a special version that's needed.
> JTAlert is looking for the actual WSJT-X running; can I just rename the exe
> of your version to provide this?
>
> Thanks and 73!
>
> Tom Sullivan, KC1VHD
>
>
>
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> Subject: [Elecraft] Fwd: New K4 WSJT-X fork for Remote K4 users
>
> All,
>
> I forked WSJT-X version 3.2.0 RC1 and created a true K4 Remote version.
> This is the latest WSJT-X test build that has the new JTTY mode in it.  No
> features or functionalities of the app have been changed - all this does is
> replace the Radio and Audio setup to only support the K4 using remote
> connections.  No more audio routing and stuff like that if you want to use
> WSJT-X with your K4 remotely.  Builds for every natively supported OS are
> there, try it out, see what you think.  My testing on Windows 11 has been
> pretty positive.
>
> https://github.com/worldwidedx/K4-WSJTX/releases/tag/v3.2.0-rc1
>
> Tim
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