Another "active solution": auto-disengage Fox mode if many decodes are standard CQs. It's a good indicator that you are sitting on the standard channel and shouldn't be allowed to call Fox.
-- Brian AF7MD On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > There apparently was somebody on 20M FT8 last night in Fox mode from a > relatively rare location and caused a mess on 14.074. Everybody though he > was calling simple CQ but was Fox so wasn't hearing them and users were > crowding the lower end of 20M trying to get him making even the the > Fox/Hound exchange problematic. > > I don't think we can leave this up to "operator responsibility" as there are > just too many out there..... > > So throwing out a few ideas to hopefully open up the discussion > > #1 Active solution -- Add a "Fox" setting to the frequency list which is > hard-coded for the "standard" bands and would prevent enabling Fox or Hound > mode on those entries with an appropriate message. > #2 Passive solution -- Detect Fox/Hound messages during decode and don't > display them at all unless you have the modes enabled. This would not stop > older versions from seeing the decoding though. > #3 Simple solution -- Whenever Fox mode is selected a big warning message > comes up about band usage. > > > de Mike W9MDB > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
