I thought the goal of DXpedition mode was to optimize the QSO rate.The
DXPedition has no idea if the station calling can actually hear them so why
should WSJT-X allow it?
Allowing such blind calls is the antithesis to optimizing rates.
They haven't tried it because everybody is calling them blind so they don't
need to. But I'll bet $$ that a lot of QSOs are timing out. Maybe we can get
some feedback from the team on that.
I will also state that blocking such blind calling would ELIMINATE what I saw
on all bands of people calling when there was no propagation to there.
Wouldn't you agree that having a pileup of people that can actually hear the DX
site is much better for QSO rate than people that can't hear them? In the
extreme...the DX site may not make any QSOs with blind callers where my
proposed solution would eliminate that problem.
I realize that we need to be conservative about what we enforce, operators are
responsible (NOT!), and such but we need to make life better for everybody and
enforcing CQ requirements would do that for both sides of the QSO. So instead
of the dozens of people calling in the blind for hours on end you have people
that can actually see the place.
Mike
On Saturday, June 30, 2018, 11:13:07 AM CDT, Bill Somerville
<g4...@classdesign.com> wrote:
Hi Mike,
we are not hear to determine how operators at a DXpedition site choose to
operate, we are not aware of conditions on the ground. If they feel that they
are getting optimum rates without calling CQ then that is their choice.
Remember that calling CQ from a rare entity can result in a passband 100% full
of pile up, they may have tried it and decided it doesn't help the QSO rate.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 30/06/2018 17:05, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
But what about them receiving all these calls in the blind? Isn't that
going to interfere when they try to respond to people who can't hear them?
Mike
On Saturday, June 30, 2018, 11:04:11 AM CDT, Bill Somerville
<g4...@classdesign.com> wrote:
On 30/06/2018 16:57, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
OK...so it appears the CQ every 5 trasnmissions is NOT enforced unless Fox
clicks the "More CQs" box. We'd be a lot better off if this was always forced
and Hounds were restricted to only answer CQ's. This explains why we don't see
the CQ's and calling blind is normally necessary (as long as you can see KH7Z
that is).
if(m_tFoxTxSinceCQ >= m_foxCQtime and ui->cbMoreCQs->isChecked()) {
de Mike W9MDB
Hi Mike,
it should be reasonable to assume that if the Baker Is. operators are not
enforcing regular CQ calls then they have plenty of callers to keep the
to-be-worked queue populated with more stations than Tx slots and a QSO rate
that is high.
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