-devel] Winter Field Day Revisited
Hi Larry,
It is really a question of principle. Protocol must be capable of sending long
free text that is not allowed to be source coded. Perhaps Q-codes are still
allowed, hi! FT8 13 character free text is about ok for sending the required
exchange
On 2/19/21 at 3:14 PM, wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (Larry
B. via wsjt-devel) wrote:
I could be wrong, but I thought Joe’s analysis showed that
the Winter FD exchange would not fit into the 77 bit package
that FT8/4 used. Perhaps if WFD changed its exchange to fit
the already available
Hi Larry,
It is really a question of principle. Protocol must be capable of sending long
free text that is not allowed to be source coded. Perhaps Q-codes are still
allowed, hi! FT8 13 character free text is about ok for sending the required
exchange, but…
Extract of reasoning:
Also, its
, February 19, 2021 12:21
To: WSJT software development
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Winter Field Day Revisited
Joe:
I took your message as a challenge to look up where the activity is
definitively. From the notes below which I just compiled, it seems that there
is a "low" of 151 log
Considering the 'sponsor' of "Winter" Field Day had this to say below,
I'm not sure its worth it to add this 'contest'. Not to mention that
the sponsor doesn't use the same types of codes that the ARRL Field Day
uses. The codes in WFD would not properly fit in a 77 bit package, so
its not an
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your continued interest.
Yes, WFD has significant participation -- a bit less than 1/10 of that
in the other non-contest that has a formatted exchange built into the
WSJT-X 77-bit structured messages.
I'm sorry if I misled you into thinking this was simply a matter of
Hi Dave,
the EU VHF Contest Mode is already used in several contests, not
specifically data mode ones. Several EU VHF contests are not mode
specific and allow entrants to boost their scores in quiet periods using
terrestrial digital modes over any path not assisted by third-party
repesters
Joe:
I took your message as a challenge to look up where the activity is
definitively. From the notes below which I just compiled, it seems that
there is a "low" of *151* logs received by the 2020 FT8 VHF-UHF EU contest
up to a high of *2,349* logs received by the ARRL 2021 RTTY Roundup. By
Hi Reino,
Thanks for the information -- I'm delighted to hear it!
We have received very little feedback about use of EU VHF Contest mode,
so we are somewhat in the dark.
-- Joe, k1JT
On 2/19/2021 11:24 AM, Reino Talarmo wrote:
As it turns out, supporting EU VHF contests has not
>As it turns out, supporting EU VHF contests has not been very fruitful.
I believe it's not much used.
Hi Joe,
I am a happy EU VHF contest user at least once a month, but I am interested
only 6m band contests and there are many more e.g. in the Nordic Activity
Contest NAC. It is used in
Hi Dave,
The simple answer is that when designing our 77-bit message payload we
chose to implement support for a few contests particularly relevant to
the WSJT-X modes.
WSJT and its sister programs were motivated for VHF/UHF weak-signal work
and have had a strong VHF+ influence from the
Bill:
I decided to review the mailing list for prior discussions of Winter Field
Day (WFD) before writing this message.
I was wondering why WFD was not supported by WSJT-X and it appears from a
message you apparently wrote on November 20, 2018 that:
the field day class is packed into 3 bits so
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