What other applications? Is anybody interpreting the directed calls for any
purpose besides JTAlert giving it a "#" ??
To me it's a tradeoff between "confusion" where non-macro users would see the
2-letter code and wonder what it's for and possibly ask questions....and the
ability to have "CQ FOX..." show up in Dxpedition mode and other such special
calls to let people know what's going on.
This has been asked numerous times for field day, SOTA, and such with no other
solution that I've seen.
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Michael D. Black
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 11:27:40 AM CST, Bill Somerville
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 07/03/2018 17:19, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
> Is there a downside to doing a macro expansion like this?
>
Hi Mike,
the obvious one is other applications not following suit. Changing the
interpretation of messages unilaterally is a recipe for confusion. At
least with the "E9aa" mapping to "CQ aa" the effect is relatively
transparent and if an application doesn't translate i.e. WSJT, then
users soon get the picture that E9EU means CQ EU and so on, whereas your
proposed mappings are rather more opaque.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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