Hello guys,
I have send this issue yesterday, but haven't been member of the list
already.
I'd suggest to make this:
In principle, we could make a "3XY" an acceptable, three-character prefix,
as a special case. Not a very attractive possibility, but...
cause this is really one and only special one case, when the prefix is not
standard, but is real..
73 Libor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "WSJT software development" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 Call sign anomaly with 3XY4D
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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