I can't help but think there is mileage in building applications on top
of the FT8 "transport", for use away from the common FT8 frequencies,
for special events.
This would keep the "standard" application uncluttered and
uncomplicated, and allow others to do what they want for specific
scenarios.
Tom
On 2018-06-26 16:13, Al Pawlowski wrote:
With the poor propagation conditions at my QTH (apparently, elsewhere
too), manual CW was the best performer. But, WSJT-X/FT8 was a close
second. I made ~20 FT8 contacts and think FT8 shows real promise for
Field Day use.
FT8 got through much better than SSB phone and FLDIGI decoded CW,
RTTY, PSK and MFSK (copying the 40m, 200mi distant, Maritime Museum
Sunday messages - RTTY came through best, BTW).
The main problems were logging of exchange, inflexibility in setting
up FT8 messaging, operator inexperience and not enough FT8 operators.
Short of making a special Field Day operational mode in WSJT, I think
logging would be greatly helped if WSJT-X would automatically put any
part of the message info not already having a defined field in the
comments field (this might be nice for general use too). And, message
flexibility could be much improved by making all the tab 1 messages
over-writable (like the current single drop-down setup) and changing
the “next” column targets to be selectors of what messages will be not
sent (skipped) in a tx cycle. Operator experience/improvement, and
having more of them in the contest, just takes time.
Al Pawlowski, K6AVP
Los Osos, CA USA
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