All,
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but I've encountered a problem
with the standard message generation and auto sequencing in FT8.
As I am a DX station, usually when I call CQ, I will get multiple
stations answering me. So far, not a problem. If I have Auto Seq and
Call 1st both checked, the messages auto generate on the first decode
with my call in it, the system starts through the sequence and as long
as I hear the other guy's responses in the proper sequence, all is well.
The problem I am encountering is when the station I am working fails to
respond to the sequences in the series as expected by the software for
whatever reason (and this happens with some frequency) and I have to
abort that sequence.
Maybe I've missed something here, and if so, let me know, but the really
annoying part is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way I have found
to abort an auto sequence and regenerate the standard messages for a
*different* call. Disabling transmit doesn't do it. Unclicking the
Auto Seq box doesn't do it. Clicking on the Generate Std Msgs button
after highlighting the call doesn't do it. Double-clicking another
redlined call doesn't do it. Nothing does it that I've found, except
disabling transmit, then selecting the TX6 radio button, then enabling
transmit and ACTUALLY SENDING a CQ sequence. THEN I can double click on
the call of the next guy in the pileup and it will generate the standard
messages. But more often than not, by the time I've done all this and
he's gotten my first sequence in the new series, that guy's already seen
the CQ sequence I didn't really want to have to send, and has declared
me to be a jerk or a doofus, and has gone away. Probably with a
disgusted look on his face.
May I suggest that, somehow, during an incomplete auto sequence, that
there should be an easier way to abort the current auto sequence series
and enable the generation of new messages and start a new auto sequence.
Perhaps, during an auto sequence, double-clicking on a different
red-lined callsign should generate a context menu button that says
"Click To Abort Current Auto Sequence And Restart With This Call" and
then, if that button is clicked, it would reset the standard messages to
the new call and start a new auto sequence. This would be enormously
helpful in pileups when the other station gets lost or out of sequence
for whatever reason (which seems to happen with considerable regularity)
and balls things up with the sequencing. If, at that context menu, one
simply clicks on the first station's redlined call, it could simply
restart the sequence and get it going again. Then I wouldn't have to
look like such a jerk to get the auto sequence software working right again.
Another, similar context menu button would be nice for working pileups.
After the auto sequence is complete, if auto seq is checked, double
clicking on another redlined callsign could produce a context menu
button that says "Click To Enable/Start New Auto Sequence With This
Call" - it would then set the standard messages, enable transmit and
begin with the first sequence. This would greatly facilitate working
pileups, without having to always remember to manually enable the
transmit separately (which I seem to have a problem remembering to do in
time to not lose that first sequence period).
73,
Scott Bidstrup
TI3/W7RI
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
_______________________________________________
wsjt-devel mailing list
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
