I completely agree with Mark. Trying to develop new software for an incompletely specified protocol is an exercise in futility, and would require extensive reverse engineering. Updating the Windows software is just as improbable given that there's no source code, so unless the original author publishes that, it can't be updated except by him / her.

The question that comes to my mind is that, if this protocol is being used by QO-100 to send images, as stated on the wells10000 web page, what software are they using to do that? It is not going to be a Windows GUI application! Can we get a hold of that software? Is that open source, so that we could actually do something with it??

Martin.
KD6YAM

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 3:09 PM Mark Jessop <vk5qi@rfhead.net> wrote:
... if the author released the source code and detailed specifications of the mode, then maybe. 

Otherwise, what you suggest is extremely unlikely. Development time would be better spent extending the support of a modem that is already open.

73
Mark VK5QI

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 4:51 AM Joseph B. Fitzgerald <jfitzgerald@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
 Apostolos Kefalas <sv1ljj@raag.org> wrote:

>It has been 12 years since the last release of KG-STV! What makes you think that
>now something new will be presented even for windows?


I am arguing that if there is a need in the marketplace, for instance lots of folks want to see KG-STV formatted images from the ISS, someone will step up and write the software for other platforms, and update the Windows software if there is a need.     If there is no compelling need for an update and/or port to other platforms, it will likely remain as is.

-de KM1P Joe

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