Notes in no particular order.
1. Frequency selection: Today's conflict with RTTY contest might have
been avoided had we looked at the contest calendar. I know that the
contest calendar is not showing any RTTY contests for the KH1 DXpedition
time frame so the 14090 operating frequency might still be fine.
2. N1DG's startup issue: Something I have noted over time is that my K3
radio that I use for FT8 is in a bad configuration for FT8 after using
it previously in some other mode. It might be that not all settings are
sent to the radio when selecting the Fox or Hound submode while changing
settings. I believe Don cleared the problem after changing modes back to
Hound and then back to Fox. Don and I now know to do some sort of
pre-flight check before calling CQ when in Fox submode when we are on
the island.
3. Software worked wonderfully: I felt in total control in this test
session. I had the time to watch the # of ongoing QSOs and queue
management on the Fox side was working well.
4. Hounds need to know when to go back to TX1 and start over. Some
hounds were calling for a long time sending TX3 long after my software
acted as if we had a completed QSO. It might be nice to have some sort
of operator tip that pops up to suggest that a Hound try over again.
There was nothing for me to do on the Fox end.
5. Quite a few loud stations were calling using the wrong version of
software or the right version and not in the Hound submode. When they
called below 1000 Hz, all they did was make it impossible for my station
to decode some replies. We need more training of Hounds, I guess.
6. My software crashed when I tried to sort the Band Activity list by
Grid Square. I am not exactly sure why I tried that sort option, but I
will likely not try it again.
7. I was using NSlots=5 and I noticed I could manage the rate by signal
strength. When I only selected high SNR stations the rate was high. When
I included very low SNR stations (in general) the rate plummeted. It
appears that you need to drop NSlots to a lower value when working the
weaker (more distant) stations to give them a few more dB to copy their
report.
8. Is it possible to include a free text message option? e.g. "QSY 15M"
or things like that?
The software is working great! My compliments to the team for these
latest features.
Ned / AA7A
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