Hi Mike
Just throwing it out there - ‘FD’ while may be common on cw etc for some
contests the CQ xx characters are generally taken as State / Providence /
Region - while FD is not a US State - it could well apply to another country.
Hardcoding it into one app does cause more confusion.
The
What other applications? Is anybody interpreting the directed calls for any
purpose besides JTAlert giving it a "#" ??
To me it's a tradeoff between "confusion" where non-macro users would see the
2-letter code and wonder what it's for and possibly ask questionsand the
ability to have "CQ
On 07/03/2018 17:19, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
Is there a downside to doing a macro expansion like this?
Hi Mike,
the obvious one is other applications not following suit. Changing the
interpretation of messages unilaterally is a recipe for confusion. At
least with the "E9aa"
Is there a downside to doing a macro expansion like this?
I've got this working and it only affects the display and not what's
transmitted. Takes advantage of unused country codes which I suppose someday
might be used..though X countries are fairly rare and calling for them even
more rare. Q
