NA VHF Contest mode should not be used in a DX contest, or at least one with significant potential for DX.
It was frustrating for me too, mostly because of the inconsistency. 73 Ria, N2RJ On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:15 PM David Fisher <dsfis...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Sometimes stations would call “CQ WW xxxx yyyy”. In that case, it was easy > to select contest mode and return the call. But in many other cases, the > other station would give no hint he was in contest mode until his mangled > grid square was received. In those cases I got the pop up that prompted me > to turn on contest mode. I did so, but all of that takes time, coordination > and practice to make work smoothly. > > > > I one case that I ran as an experiment, I called CQ in contest mode, got a > reply, then got a message through JTAlertX asking what I was doing and why my > grid square didn’t make sense. Etc. etc. etc. > > > > Bottom line – I wasn’t in the contest, but I made a mess of a number of other > station’s contest mode QSOs, which defeated the intent of contest mode. > > > > Dave / NX6D > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w...@w0mu.com> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 4:37:07 PM > To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [wsjt-devel] Contest mode CQVHF > > First of all I want to thank everyone for this great advancement in the > hobby! > > > The CQ WW VHF was my first exposure to contest mode and it was a very > frustrating 27 hours. > > If I am in contest mode and I call CQ and get an answer from someone who > is not, there is essentially no way to complete a qso unless one side > changes into or out of contest mode. What happened to me is I would > switch and then the other side would switch and we would be opposite. > Frustrating! > > The main issue is that we cannot expect those not in the contest to have > to switch into a specific mode to work us. This does not happen in any > other contest. We cannot expect this from casual ops. I am glad they > want to work me. Being able to work them should be painless too! > > Why is contest mode needed? If a qso is good in contest mode with less > sequences I suggest that all FT8 exchanges be the same. Is there a > specific reason two have multiple sets of exchanges for in a contest and > not in a contest? I don't think so. > > I understand that this was an issue for the June VHF contest too. > > If you guys can move my xmit around in fox/hound mode, which worked out > really well, there has to be a solution for this. I believe that the > fox was still able to work people not running hound? We need the same > ability in contest mode. > > I believe that this is already being examined but I thought I would give > my feedback. I would be happy to provide more information if desired. > > Thanks again for all the hard work in bringing us FT8! > > W0MU > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsdm.link%2Fslashdot&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbe807b8121b94f841e5808d5f0f86e14%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636679872141956608&sdata=4ngp%2FoSOWuPUakyW3qTn6b49JD01iE6jHJc%2BQlc6qbM%3D&reserved=0 > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Fwsjt-devel&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cbe807b8121b94f841e5808d5f0f86e14%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636679872141956608&sdata=AiDSOG94NAAree6BMP1FFzeJk%2B6exoF2EylLUp9fu08%3D&reserved=0 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
