On 9/21/2017 12:42 PM, Joe Taylor wrote:
What would be *really* helpful is for you to work with someone else and thoroughly exercise the new capabilities. Both MSK144 and FT8. The idea is that one of you would be trying to make contest QSOs; the QSO partnet might or might not be in the contest, or know anything about what "Contest Mode" means. Test all possibilities, and report back.
Thanks for your attention to this -- it's critical for contest operation to be able to interchangeably work both stations who are using contest mode and those who are not. It's been my experience that at least a very large part of the likelihood of being able to work a grid is the presence of a station there to work when the propagation is there. WSJT-X, both before and after FT8, was almost single-handedly responsible for allowing me to work 146 grids so far this season, 39 of them new grids, and all but four using WSJT-X.
While it may be difficult to implement, it's also important that newer releases be backward-compatible with earlier 1.8 releases to the greatest extent possible. Something as simple as a software switch on the main operating screen to switch back to non-contest operation on the fly would solve that.
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