Hi Mike
Just throwing it out there - ‘FD’ while may be common on cw etc for some
contests the CQ xx characters are generally taken as State / Providence /
Region - while FD is not a US State - it could well apply to another country.
Hardcoding it into one app does cause more confusion.
The X? may work (Assuming no country) - but did I not see issues with a station
XE in recent fox/hound test - If some authority somewhere decides they will
use XD as call there will be a mad rush to release patches assuming developers
are around.
I would hate for some (no offence intended) cock and bull method that is not
fully thought out - where would sota ref go, what about IOTA and all the other
niche events. No doubt the one ‘xxxx’ macro that is not added/supported will be
the one that causes most moans and complaints.
Yes there should be a solution to that along with 6 character grids and a way
of passing a ‘reference’ - SOTA ref/Contest Number/IOTA code - what it is I
can’t help with but shoe horning a solution for xx% of users is not it.
Again no offence - just my personal view.
Regards
Tom
GM8MJV
On 7 Mar 2018, at 17:34, Black Michael via wsjt-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> -----------------------------------
> 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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