Would a unique CQ message for contest mode work, or is that asking for
confusion?
Normal mode: CQ KF2T FM18
Contest mode: CX KF2T FM18
The contest community is smaller than the general population, so it might be an
easier “sell."
George J Molnar
Arlington, Virginia, USA
KF2T - FM18lv
> On May 31, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/05/2018 17:43, Joe Taylor wrote:
>> On 5/31/2018 12:22 PM, Jay Hainline wrote:
>>> Joe, is it possible to use one of the extra FT8 bits as a flag that you are
>>> transmitting in contest mode or not? Would that be useful to keep the
>>> program on the receiving end from being confused?
>>>
>>> 73 Jay KA9CFD
>>
>> Of course this could be done in FT8. But as I emphasized in a previous
>> email, we did not want to use a different solution for FT8 and MSK144.
>> As currently implemented, MSK144 has no spare bits.
>>
>> Casual operators can get confused enough with type of "NA VHF Contest: mode,
>> let alone two different ones.
>>
>> -- Joe, K1JT
> Hi Joe and Jay,
>
> perhaps we should only have the automatic detection of NA contest mode
> messages when "Enable VHF/UHF/Microwave features" is enabled. That way user
> could set up a configuration for 6m multi-hop Es operating that will not get
> confused by such long DX.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
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