Rich,
> He sent me a report, a Tx2 message, “K1HTV W3ARO OE28”, a bogus grid number,
> apparently mis-formated by the software version that he was using.
>
As explained in the user guide reference that I sent earlier, he was sending a
correctly formatted contest-mode message. His software translated his grid
(FN20) to the corresponding (antipodal) grid on the other side of the earth.
This was done to signal to your instance of WSJT-X that the received grid
should be translated back to FN20 and printed with a “Roger”. So, if your
instance was in contest mode, it would recognize that the received grid was
impossibly far away, and would have translated it back to FN20 and printed it
with an accompanying “R”, i.e. as "K1HTV W3ARO R FN20”.
> I had switched back to non-contest mode, and turned auto sequence OFF and
> sent him “W3ARO K1HTV -05”.
This would explain why you received the non-translated grid, without the “R”.
>
> He responded with an apparent free form text message of “K1HTV W3ARO R FN20”
> which is a properly formatted Tx3 message.
>
If you saw this, then at this point in time, you must have had contest mode
turned on.
> So, the only bogus grid message that he sent appears to be the Tx2 message.
Again, this is done on purpose by his instance of the program, and only for
Tx3, because it is supposed to signal your instance of WSJT-X to translate the
grid and print it with an accompanying “R”.
This is how contest mode is supposed to work.
Steve k9an
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