FST4W with v3.0.4 on Pi4


Rob Robinett
 

Hi Alan,

While WD is running, execute 'wdle', which is an alias which runs' wd -l e'.  Every 10 seconds it searches all of the many WD log files  looking for lines which contain the word "ERROR",  There are a few non-error conditions currently being logged,  but you should see and FST4W decoder failures but not failure to find spots in those logs.

Beyond that, it would be much easier for us for me to log on to your WD machine and exp[lore further.

Rob

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon$ wdle
Thu 27 Oct 2022 13:38:25 UTC: proxy_connection_manager() ALERT: There is an active proxy connection to wd0.wsprdaemon.org where its port 35800 is open to this server
Checking every 10 seconds for new ERROR lines in all the log files.  Press <CONTROL C> to exit
Thu 27 Oct 2022 13:38:31 UTC: wd_logger_check_all_logs()
Found 9 new 'ERROR:' lines in /dev/shm/wsprdaemon/recording.d/KIWI_SW/40/decoding_daemon.log among its 5037 new log lines.
Thu 27 Oct 2022 11:36:10 UTC: get_wav_levels() ERROR: wav file overflow detected  in file 221027_1134.wav of length=120.011 seconds and with Bit-depth=16/16: the min/max levels are: min=-0.968719, max=0.987122
That is the first ERROR: line. Press <ENTER> to check the next log file or 'l' to 'less all the new lines after that new ERROR line /dev/shm/wsprdaemon/new_error_log_lines.txt =>


On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 2:30 AM Alan G4ZFQ <alan4alan@...> wrote:
On 27/10/2022 08:33, Gwyn Griffiths via groups.io wrote:
It may be useful to run a test in isolation of the jt9 program

Gwyn,

Thanks! Yes jt9 is there I'll give it a try this afternoon.

73 Alan









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Alan G4ZFQ
 

On 27/10/2022 08:33, Gwyn Griffiths via groups.io wrote:
Any of these steps may fail, but that will tell us something:
Gwyn,

Thanks, I got

alan@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/alan/wsprdaemon/bin/jt9 --fst4w -p 120 -f 1500 -F 100 ~/220719_1418.wav
/home/alan/wsprdaemon/bin/jt9: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_log_setup.so.1.67.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
alan@raspberrypi:~ $

Where now?

Also, I've a receiver on 20m FST4-300 at the moment, propagation to USA is not yet open. It is the standard WSPR frequency?

73 Alan


Rob Robinett
 

Alan,

What OS are you running?  WSJT-x hasn't been ported to Raspberry Pi OS bullseye nor to Ubuntu 22.04, so WD can't run on those versions of OSs.

Rob

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 7:13 AM Alan G4ZFQ <alan4alan@...> wrote:
On 27/10/2022 08:33, Gwyn Griffiths via groups.io wrote:
> Any of these steps may fail, but that will tell us something:

Gwyn,

Thanks, I got

alan@raspberrypi:~ $ /home/alan/wsprdaemon/bin/jt9 --fst4w -p 120 -f
1500 -F 100 ~/220719_1418.wav
/home/alan/wsprdaemon/bin/jt9: error while loading shared libraries:
libboost_log_setup.so.1.67.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
alan@raspberrypi:~ $

Where now?

Also, I've a receiver on 20m FST4-300 at the moment, propagation to USA
is not yet open. It is the standard WSPR frequency?

73 Alan











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Alan G4ZFQ
 

On 27/10/2022 14:16, Rob Robinett wrote:
WSJT-x hasn't been ported to Raspberry Pi OS bullseye
Ah! Thanks, my lack of research, I thought as it is based on Debian it would be OK.

Is Buster OK or what?

73 Alan


Rob Robinett
 

WSJT-x worked on a Pi running older buster, but there was an update to the buster image on 22/9/2022  at https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-os-legacy which I haven't tested yet.

If you can successfully install and run WSJT-x from https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html on the Pi's desktop, then WD should install and run fine.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 7:52 AM Alan G4ZFQ <alan4alan@...> wrote:
On 27/10/2022 14:16, Rob Robinett wrote:
> WSJT-x hasn't been ported to Raspberry Pi OS bullseye

Ah! Thanks, my lack of research, I thought as it is based on Debian it
would be OK.

Is Buster OK or what?

73 Alan







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Alan G4ZFQ
 

On 27/10/2022 14:51, Alan G4ZFQ via groups.io wrote:
Is Buster OK or what?
Yes, Buster looks OK.
alan@raspberrypi:~/wsprdaemon $ ./bin/jt9 --fst4w -p 120 -f 1500 -F 100 ~/220719_1418.wav
1418 11 1.1 1511 ` G3ZIL IO90 30
<DecodeFinished> 0 1 0
and
2022-10-28 15:00:00 G9ZFQ IO90ir 0 3 -17 475714 G4ZFQ WD_3.0.5

Thanks all for the hints, directing me where to fumble:-)

73 Alan


Gwyn Griffiths
 

Hello Alan

Nice to see that you are now reporting over-the-air FST4W spots on 2200 and 630 m from your Kiwi and WsprDaemon.
The spectral widths look excellent, at mostly under 10 milliHz.

best wishes

Gwyn G3ZIL


Alan G4ZFQ
 

On 29/10/2022 07:17, Gwyn Griffiths via groups.io wrote:
The spectral widths look excellent, at mostly under 10 milliHz.
Gwyn,

Thanks for the check.
I've been poking around, found my local noise graphs, maybe find out how you get the spectral widths one day.

73 Alan


Gwyn Griffiths
 

Hello Alan

You can find a Grafana Dashboard for FST4W, that I've preset with your tx call and Ulli, ON5KQ, as a receiver that has spotted your FST4W-300 on 630 m the last couple of days at:

http://logs1.wsprdaemon.org:3000/d/4xvGwI97z/wspr-and-fst4w-comparisons?orgId=1&var-receiver=KIWI_5&var-sender=G4ZFQ&var-band=630&var-rx_id=ON5KQ&from=now-5d&to=now

regular wsprdaemon Grafana users will know the usual userid and password. I'll drop you an email with them.

regards
Gwyn


Rob Robinett
 

My most recent check in includes a the command 'wd-query' which prints out only FST4W spots (and the frequency twice!):

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon$ wd-query
usage:  wd-query {-r | -t} ID [HOURS_TO_SEARCH]       -r => search for ID of reporter     -t => search for ID of transmit beacon
wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon$
wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon$ wd-query -t G4ZFQ 8
        time         | tx_call | tx_grid | rx_id | receiver | rx_grid |   freq    | tx_dBm |  SNR  | drift | mode |   freq    | S width (mHz)
---------------------+---------+---------+-------+----------+---------+-----------+--------+-------+-------+------+-----------+---------------
 2022-10-30 13:25:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -5.6 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            12
 2022-10-30 13:15:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -5.6 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            13
 2022-10-30 13:00:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757138 |      3 |  -5.7 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757138 |            25
 2022-10-30 11:30:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -5.9 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |             5
 2022-10-30 09:30:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G4ZFQ | G4ZFQ_1  | IO90ir  | 0.4757137 |      3 | -23.8 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            99
 2022-10-30 09:30:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -6.3 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            12
 2022-10-30 09:20:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -5.9 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            19
 2022-10-30 09:10:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757138 |      3 |    -6 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757138 |            18
 2022-10-30 08:25:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G4ZFQ | G4ZFQ_1  | IO90ir  | 0.4757138 |      3 | -27.2 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757138 |           204
 2022-10-30 08:25:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757138 |      3 |  -6.1 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757138 |            17
 2022-10-30 06:55:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | ON5KQ | KIWI_5   | JO10os  | 0.4757137 |      3 | -31.6 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            27
 2022-10-30 06:55:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -5.7 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            19
 2022-10-30 06:35:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | ON5KQ | KIWI_5   | JO10os  | 0.4757137 |      3 | -29.7 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            30
 2022-10-30 06:35:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G3ZIL | G3ZIL_3  | IO90hw  | 0.4757137 |      3 |  -5.6 |     0 |    6 | 0.4757137 |            19
 2022-10-30 06:35:00 | G4ZFQ   | IO90    | G4ZFQ | G4ZFQ_1  | IO90ir  | 0.4756638 |      3 | -22.1 |     0 |    6 | 0.4756638 |           165
(15 rows)

wd_client@KFS-WD3:~/wsprdaemon$


On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 1:36 AM Gwyn Griffiths via groups.io <gxgriffiths=virginmedia.com@groups.io> wrote:
Hello Alan

You can find a Grafana Dashboard for FST4W, that I've preset with your tx call and Ulli, ON5KQ, as a receiver that has spotted your FST4W-300 on 630 m the last couple of days at:

http://logs1.wsprdaemon.org:3000/d/4xvGwI97z/wspr-and-fst4w-comparisons?orgId=1&var-receiver=KIWI_5&var-sender=G4ZFQ&var-band=630&var-rx_id=ON5KQ&from=now-5d&to=now

regular wsprdaemon Grafana users will know the usual userid and password. I'll drop you an email with them.

regards
Gwyn



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Alan G4ZFQ
 

On 30/10/2022 14:40, Rob Robinett wrote:
My most recent check in includes a the command 'wd-query' which prints out only FST4W spots (and the frequency twice!):
Thanks Rob.

Things are a bit different since I became interested in WSPR over 13 years ago!
Whatever of my Softrock's 1 Watt FST4W-300 comes out of the poor antenna made 1800Km on MF last night.
But I suspect it will be a long time before most abandon WSPR.

73 Alan


Erwin - PE3ES - F4VTQ
 

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 03:40 PM, Rob Robinett wrote:
wd-query
I just did a git pull but still wd-query not found.


Rob Robinett
 

Log out and log in again 

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 8:12 AM Erwin - PE3ES - F4VTQ via groups.io <waterwin2=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 03:40 PM, Rob Robinett wrote:
wd-query
I just did a git pull but still wd-query not found.

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Erwin - PE3ES - F4VTQ
 

Thanks Rob, that is looking good now.

 wd-query
usage:  wd-query {-r | -t} ID [HOURS_TO_SEARCH]       -r => search for ID of reporter     -t => search for ID of transmit beacon
 


Erwin - PE3ES - F4VTQ
 

wd-query -r F4VTQ 48
        time         | tx_call | tx_grid | rx_id | receiver | rx_grid |   freq    | tx_dBm | SNR | drift | mode | S width (mHz)
---------------------+---------+---------+-------+----------+---------+-----------+--------+-----+-------+------+---------------
 2022-11-02 05:00:00 | 7R9HB   | LN87    | F4VTQ | KIWI_0   | JN28ux  | 7.0400051 |     53 | -37 |     0 |    6 |            24
 2022-10-31 23:55:00 | G6AVK   | JO01    | F4VTQ | KIWI_0   | JN28ux  | 0.4757851 |     17 | -29 |     0 |    6 |             4
 2022-10-31 23:50:00 | G6AVK   | JO01    | F4VTQ | KIWI_0   | JN28ux  | 0.4757851 |     17 | -31 |     0 |    6 |             4
 2022-10-31 23:40:00 | G6AVK   | JO01    | F4VTQ | KIWI_0   | JN28ux  | 0.4757851 |     17 | -28 |     0 |    6 |             2
 2022-10-31 22:50:00 | G6AVK   | JO01    | F4VTQ | KIWI_0   | JN28ux  | 0.4757851 |     17 | -34 |     0 |    6 |             6
 2022-10-31 21:30:00 | G6AVK   | JO01    | F4VTQ | KIWI_0   | JN28ux  | 0.4757851 |     17 | -35 |     0 |    6 |             4