Hi Rich,
On 10/29/2017 1:19 PM, Rich - K1HTV wrote:
A new FT8 DXCC country popped up today, 3XY4D. When I double clicked on his CQ call, it did not populate the message boxes.
...
The behavior you described is no surprise to anyone who has read the
definition of what's treated as a standard callsign in any of the slow
modes in WSJT-X.
See, for example, the original defining document for JT65:
J. Taylor, K1JT, "The JT65 Communications Protocol" (QEX,
September-October 2005, p 3):
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/JT65.pdf
... or the WSJT-X User Guide here:
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-1.8.0.html#PROTOCOLS
Relevant text:
"A standard amateur callsign consists of a one- or two-character prefix,
at least one of which must be a letter, followed by a digit and a suffix
of one to three letters."
The callsign 3XY4D does not follow this worldwide standard convention.
For this reason, the messages you showed are all treated as free-text
messages.
I am sure it is very frustrating for 3XY4D, and also for those trying to
work him (as I did, yesterday, by using free text messages in FT8).
In principle, we could make a "3XY" an acceptable, three-character
prefix, as a special case. Not a very attractive possibility, but...
-- 73, Joe, K1JT
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