>> For non-US QSO parties, similar techniques might work. Consider a QSO party >> with the counties of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as the activated >> counties. :-)
For RSGB it’s between 2 to 8 characters along with the obligatory signal report ’59’ :-) As has been pointed out it’s payload size - suspect will have to wait till the next major release FT9? (or FT10, FT11 ….) It’s not a simple task even if limited to USA. Tom 73’s Tom GM8MJV (IO85) On 26 Sep 2019, at 01:12, Bill Frantz <ae...@arrl.net> wrote: > On 9/25/19 at 3:52 PM, g4...@classdesign.com (Bill Somerville) wrote: > >> On 25/09/2019 23:42, Bill Somerville wrote: >>> whereas the index into a table of 64 values (48 states + 14 provinces + DC >>> + DX) takes a mere 7 bits to store. > > This is actually an interesting problem. We can divide the contesters into > those activating the counties and those trying to contact them. The worst > case I've heard is 252 Texas counties, but the 7QP will also have a big > number. > > One other problem is that some of the state QSO parties take place on the > same weekend, and of course, some people try to make contacts in more than > one QSO party. If the sum of all counties involved is small enough, it might > be possible to support this behavior. > > Lets assume: For the US state QSO parties, each station only activates > counties in one QSO party. (We do need to support rovers.) It will need to > receive locations from all the counties in that QSO party + the other > states/provinces. People sending to it will need to know which table it is > using. > > We can select the table by the weekend data, and starting week before for > testing. There might also be a UI affordance which allows manual selection > for use in closed group testing. (For such testing, I suggest ditching the > radios and just using the built-in audio of several computers in the same > room.) > > For non-US QSO parties, similar techniques might work. Consider a QSO party > with the counties of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as the activated > counties. :-) > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz | When all else fails: Voice | Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | and CW. | 16345 Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | | Los Gatos, CA 95032 > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
