Hi Bill, Thanks for the quick response.
If you are referring to potentially extending the current ARRL Field Day to support the three additional letters, I had first thought about that too. I even saw in the code where you do the validation. However, I bet the wsjtx developers would have a reason for not broadening the definition of the ARRL field day contest mode to include that of WFD. You gave such a reason. It wasn't one I had anticipated though :-) Would adding another contest to the list of supported wsjtx contests remove the restriction you cited? And granted, I get that this would take more time to develop than broadening the allowable characters for the current ARRL Field Day contest. BTW...Your suggestion is fine. The trick is getting all WFD participants to use it. You have likely noticed that not everybody who uses wsjtx for the mock contests or DXpeditions use the right version or set the wsjtx contest mode. Getting the word out and getting users to rtfm is a challenge. If there is no chance to have WFD added to the list of contests in time for WFD, then I will approach the WFD organizers and make a plea for a convention as you suggest. Then, before submitting the log, a string substitution will need to be made to ensure that A == I, B == O, and C == H. regards, Brian VE3IBW On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:08 AM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: > On 20/11/2018 13:20, Brian Waterworth wrote: > > I participated in the mock RTTY Roundup contest yesterday. What fun. I > am now even more energized to use wsjtx for the upcoming Winter Field Day. > But alas, I won't be able to as the class letters are different from the > ARRL Field Day contest. > > As was posted on the main wsjtx forum, the wsjtx ARRL Field Day support > validates the class ( [A-F] ) and section. Winter field day uses different > classes. However, the same section and qso cadence as the ARRL Field Day > is used. The classes are: I == Inside, O == Outside, H == Home. By way of > example, my club's class and section would be 3O GTA. > > Here is a link to the WFD Rules: https://www.winterfieldday.com/rules > > I know the wsjtx development team has a lot on their plate getting ready > for the upcoming GA. If at all possible, would you be able to support > winter field day (Jan 26-27, 2019) given how close it is to the actual ARRL > Field Day support already in wsjtx. WFD is actually growing in popularity > year-over-year. > > regards, > Brian > VE3IBW > > Hi Brian, > > the field day class is packed into 3 bits so only eight different classes > are supported. We cannot support three new class letters on top of the > existing six. It could be possible by agreement to use, say, 'A', 'B', and > 'C' to represent 'I', 'O', and 'H' since Winter FD does not use any of the > normal FD classes. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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