Hello Bill,

Thank you for the clear explanation, as always.
One question remains, how long will an entry in the hash table exist for?
In particular is it cleared after a band change?
I sometimes do bandhopping to monitor different bands.

Thanks again and 73,
Ton pa0tbr

On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 at 18:50, Bill Somerville <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 15/12/2018 17:11, Ton PA0TBR wrote:
> > I am trying to work out why some callsigns are shown as <...> in WSJT-X
> > Sometimes <...> is reflected in JTAlert as ...  other times it is not
> > shown in JTAlert.
> >
> > For example:
> > 103615 -12  1.8 1590 ~  <...> LZ1PPZ
> > 103645  -2  1.8 1590 ~  <...> LZ1PPZ R-18
> > 103715  -5  1.9 1589 ~  <...> LZ1PPZ R-20
> > 103745  -8  1.8 1588 ~  OG55W <LZ1PPZ> 73
> >
> > Looks like LZ1PPZ worked OG55W, but why was the call of OG55W not
> > shown in the initial messages?
> > And why is LZ1PPZ enclosed by <> in the last message?
> >
> > Other examples:
> > 112030 -12  0.3  915 ~  G3PLP <...> -16
> > 112100 -14  0.3  915 ~  <G3PLP> ZS9YOTA RR73
> > Why was ZS9YOTA substituted by <...> ?
> >
> > 111800 -17  0.1  650 ~  CQ SD4C JP80       Sweden
> > 111830 -14  0.1  650 ~  <...>
> > What happened here?
> >
> > I use WSJT-X v2.0.0.0 in FT8 mode
> >
> > 73,
> > Ton pa0tbr
>
> Hi Ton,
>
> in the WSJT-X 77-bit FT8 (and MSK144) protocol non-standard callsigns
> like OG55W and ZS9YOTA require one of the callsigns in a two-callsign
> message to be compressed to a hash code  to make space for the rest of
> the message information. The hash code is a one-way algorithm so the
> callsign cannot be looked up until a message with the callsign in full
> has been received, until then the hash code is indicated as <...>. Once
> the hash table is populated, the callsigns received as hash codes are
> printed between '<' and '>' characters. The QSO flow and choice of which
> of the two callsigns is hashed is arranged so that a station hearing
> either end of the QSO will eventually get the hash table populated for
> both callsigns. Also the flow and choice of which callsign to hash means
> that during a QSO each station will send and receive each callsign
> un-hashed at least once, in fact this is a corollary of the previous
> sentence.
>
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
>
>
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