Hi David,
Thanks for your early report on testing RTTY contest mode.
As you figured out, each of the issues you identified is a result of
invalid user input. We haven't yet included validation tests on some of
the new entry fields, but obviously these are needed. At present, it's
important for users to follow instructions in the Quick-Start Guide.
On your last point, Tx1 being grayed out: this is the default when RTTY
Roundup messages have been selected. If you switch back to normal
messages by selecting "None" on the Advanced tab, Tx1 will remain grayed
out. Double-click on Tx1 to reactivate Tx1.
-- 73, Joe, K1JT
On 9/26/2018 1:17 AM, David Bean (KC2WUF) via wsjt-devel wrote:
Joe et al,
Some further observations:
* On further review, I had entered '59 NJ' in my exchange for RTTY RU
and I will need to wait until tomorrow's RTTY RU test for my
correcting it to just 'NJ' to see how this affects my last two
bullets in the original post. _*Note:*_ It might be good to do some
basic check on the exchange for each contest and alert the user to
potential corrective action.
* After finishing the contest mode and switching everything back to
what I thought was normal FT8 operation (contest None, uncheck both
77-bit only boxes), Tx 1 was greyed out and all of my subsequent
QSOs skipped Tx 1 and proceeded with Tx 2 when I tried to answer a
CQ call. This is abnormal behavior from my understanding, although
I've seen it numerous times on the bands by some users.
73 David KC2WUF
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 11:37:04 PM EDT, David Bean (KC2WUF)
<kc2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joe et al,
I was running some RTTY RU contest tests tonight with some friends and
noticed the following:
* A friend was trying to answer CQ and people calling his CQ without
any exchange entered in the correct text box and all transmits were
<.......> form. It would probably be advisable to notify anyone
operating contest mode without an exchange (and if possible an
invalid exchange) to get some type of warning.
* I looked after a few contest QSOs and noticed that the Cabrillo file
had the 5x9 received report, but had 59 for the sent report. It
should be the 5x9 that I sent.
* The log QSO text box had no reports (5x9 sent/received) in it during
the contest and therefore they weren't transferred into my logging
program nor the ADI file. I did enter the 5x9 for both reports for
one of the QSOs and it was sent along both chains (ADI and logging
program via JT-AlertX).
73 David KC2WUF
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