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Most non-standard/custom CQ messages are unclickable i.e. double-clicking them doesn’t trigger an automated-response because the software doesn’t know who to respond to. They are treated as free-text messages. They are not automatically interpreted as CQs. FT8 lets us insert up to 2 characters (letters only, I think) into our CQs to make directed calls e.g. “CQ DX ZL2IFB RF80” or “CQ NA ZL2IFB RF80”. These messages ARE clickable. FT8+ gives us up to 4 letters to play with e.g. “CQ TEST ZL2IFB RF80” or “CQ IOTA ZL2IFB RF80” or “CQ BOB ZL2IFB RF80”. Again, these ARE clickable. 73 Gary ZL2iFB PS I presume the message type is indicated by flags in the transmitted message, not by the payload itself. However, I’m not clear whether the message type is initially determined by the message box we use, or by the content of the message. For instance, if I type “CQ ZL2IFB RF80” into the Tx 5 free-text box, is that sent as a clickable CQ message or an unclickable free text message? From: Al Pawlowski <k6...@almont.com> Sent: 29 November 2018 15:05 To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] 2 more bug reports on RC5 Actually, I have never seen one of my 77 messages as decoded - just assumed it would decode as the bottom of pane tx message being sent read. I think all of the non-standard messages I tried to answer by double-click had no numbers in them, and they still did not auto-start. Al Pawlowski, K6AVP Los Osos, CA USA On Nov 28, 2018, at 17:39, wsjt-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:wsjt-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:38:39 +1300 From: "Gary Hinson" < <mailto:g...@isect.com> g...@isect.com> To: "'WSJT software development'" < <mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] 2 more bug reports on RC5 Message-ID: < <mailto:058b01d48784$433a8b10$c9afa130$@isect.com> 058b01d48784$433a8b10$c9afa130$@isect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" HI Al. As I understand it, the zero to 4 characters we can insert into a standard CQ message must be letters only ? no numbers ? if the recipients are to be able to double-click and respond to them. That?s why I?m using ?CQ PLUS?. It?s a limitation of the message compression ? not enough bits to code letters AND numbers in that field. If we use numbers, the message changes to a normal free-text message format ? with no indication to the user that it is unclickable at the far end ?……………...
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