[SFDXA] From K1JT - Expect the rc-6 update at the end of May earliest...................

[Pete Rimmel N8PR]

>From Joe, K1JT – 73 de Lee KX4TT
 

Thanks to everyone for feedback on FT4 over the past 10 days -- and especially from yesterday's practice contest session!  Your reports have been very helpful.  My own report is included below, but first let me give an overall status report.

 

FT4 works well, but (as implemented WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5) it has some rough spots and performance issues.  Many of these have been fixed already, during this beta-testing period, and more improvements are still to come.

 

We have decided that another mock contest session using -rc5 (Release Candidate 5) will not be helpful.  It's not convenient for us to build and distribute -rc6 in time for a session early next week, a few days before the Dayton Hamvention  Instead, we are aiming now to release

WSJT-X-rc6 about two weeks later -- probably in the last week of May or the first week of June.  Another mock contest practice session will be scheduled soon after that release.

 

Therefore: THE PRACTICE SESSION TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR MAY 14 IS CANCELED.