If you could force my FT-857D to comply with CAT control I would be all for
it HIHI
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel <
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Yup...sure is....hopefully that will stop 99% of them (except the ones who
> manually dial in the rig).
> Ensuring they have CAT control would help with that but not sure we want
> to enforce CAT control, do we?
>
> de Mike W9MDB
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 10:49:48 AM CDT, Jay Hainline <
> ka9...@mtcnow.net> wrote:
>
>
> Isnt this addressed in r8647?
>
> Jay KA9CFD
>
>
>
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>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Black Michael via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: 5/9/18 09:40 (GMT-06:00)
> To: WSJT Software Development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Black Michael <mdblac...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [wsjt-devel] FT8 CQ Fox block possible?
>
> 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
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