Ah, Laurie! Must be Aussie Hacker humor to point out settings and info based on code released just hours before, ha! Thought I was bad when running the code distributions for Fido and Opus, et al. <lo

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Why bother with the UDP forwarding? That is no longer needed now that JTAlert supports UDP mulitcasting. You just need to set both WSJT-X and Grid Tracker to use the same multicast IP address (in the

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Glad you noted the multicast test-build issue, Laurie. I, too, lost my GridTracker input feed when I upgraded it at the same time I upgraded JT. Thought it was GT. Now looks like it may be due to the

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Bill, I just checked the code, that option was being ignored in the latest build (left over testing code that should have been removed) so it would not have made a difference. de Laurie VK3AMA

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Laurie, It was a cursory observation. I didn't see the pink B4s and maybe some other colors initially and not sure if JTA was displaying all of the callsigns either. So there appeared to be some effec

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Bill, Failing to uncheck that resend option should have no ill effects. Did you see otherwise? That resend option was being used by GridTracker prior to multicast, but with changing GT to using a mult

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Decided to try UDP Multicast with Grid Tracker and immediately saw positive benefits. Callsign lookups have more info and my QSLs are showing up according to the legend colors. Still getting feet wet.

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Hi Laurie, Thanks for the response. Right. I’d been using GT with JTA that way until now and wanted to explicitly mention they can be used independently now and that is working perfectly. JTA is never

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Russ, Tnx for the positive report. The point that many people are missing about multicast is that it allows multiple WSJT-X cooperating applications like JTAlert, DX Aggregator & Grid Tracker to be ru

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Bill - thanks - that explanation was very helpful and succinct. 73 Paul

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Just wanted to report I successfully updated JTA to 2.16.10 and have it running together with GridTracker with no issues so far. It works perfectly as far as I can see. Thank you yet again, Laurie ! F

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Paul, if you don't understand the networking details here that's not a problem. This is a feature of the WSJT-X UDP Message Protocol that allows multiple applications to interoperate with one or more

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WSJT-X multicasts it's status packets from multiple instances as with Flex Radio systems. JTAlert can then see those status packets too.

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Dev So JTAlert is doing the one to many broadcasting to .........who/what. ? Give us an example of how this might be helpful to us? 73 Paul

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i got that explanation, but I still dont see it helping me. I can already have wsjt, jtalert, gridtracker and my log all working now. maybe speed is difference. I will be watching progress Dave Garber

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Multicast is the opposite of unicast - which is what you normally do, when you browse a web or send an email. It allows a "one-to-many" relationship, just like broadcasting. It actually is broadcastin

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Hi Paul, answered previously here: https://hamapps.groups.io/g/Support/message/31202 73 Bill G4WJS.

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So for me and I am sure just a few others, can someone explain exactly what Multicast is , and what benefit it brings us?? thanks & 73 Paul w2eck

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Grid Tracker is running in beta at the same time. It works fine. I think the multicast version is very good. Thank you Laurie. de JL1JVT Toshiya

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No, you don't need to delete the JTAlert or WSJT-X config files. JTAlert provides for zero-configuration changes, everything is automatic. You don't need to make any changes to WSJT-X unless you want

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