Hi Gary,
I think that you might have something there. I was calling CQ for a
long time one an empty band when I saw a VK3 calling CQ. I stopped what I
was doing to call him. I didn't notice that his message was "CQ 908 VK3XXX
QF22". I immediately got a purple message in the RX Windows stating "QSY
1.908". My radio just started calling him at on 1908. I guess this is the
FT8 equivalent of never clicking on a URL in an email! Oh well, lesson
learned. I was lucky that I didn't get blindly sent off outside the band
somewhere. I'll have to pay closer attention to what people are actually
sending before I click on them. I'm sure this must be a useful feature
somewhere but it seems a bit dangerous. While the F/H mode QSY is great
this "random" QSY should be an option that you can click off.
73,
Bill - AK6A
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:38 PM Gary Hinson <g...@isect.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill.
>
>
>
> It sounds to me as if you may have double-clicked a CQ message containing
> a number e.g. “CQ 1908 AB1CDE”: I think WSJT-X interprets that number as a
> frequency and automatically QSYs the radio for you – like it or not. I
> don’t know what kind of validation or bounds checking there is, but I
> suspect if I sent “CQ 2010 ZL2IFB”, I might be sending callers well outside
> the 160m band. [Please don’t try this at home!]
>
>
>
> Generally speaking, we should NOT be sending numbers in our CQ calls on
> HF. The workaround is NOT to double-click CQ messages containing numbers.
> If you want to call someone sending numbers, you can manually enter their
> callsign into the DX call box, generate the messages then call the station
> without QSYing.
>
>
>
> FWIW on HF, I would prefer to be able to disable the auto-QSY function,
> either as a user-option or by default. In fact, it would be much more
> useful to allow directed CQ messages to contain up to 4 letters and/or
> digits e.g. “CQ E51 ZL2iFB”. At present, directional CQs can only contain
> up to 4 letters, no numbers – possibly due to conflict with the auto-QSY
> function. However, that would require a change to the software …
>
>
>
> 73,
>
> Gary ZL2iFB
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill <brightl...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 07 March 2019 03:50
> *To:* WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Subject:* [wsjt-devel] Automatic QSY on 160m!!
>
>
>
> I just ran into an issue while operating on 160m FT8. When I try to work
> JA stations on 160m I normally go into the WSJT-X preferences and turn the
> Radio Split operation from RIG to NONE then manually set my radio for a
> 1840 transmit and 1908 receive split. Before transmitting I make sure that
> I am on a clear frequency within the 1840 segment. This method has always
> worked well.
>
>
>
> This morning while calling a regular CQ on the standard 1840 allocation
> (split control set to standard RIG control - normal 160m operation) WSJT-X
> displayed a purple line in the RX window saying "QSY 1908" and my rig was
> automatically sent to both transmit and receive to 1908. Where did this
> come from and more importantly how do I turn it off!! Some online research
> showed some information about a QSO partner requesting a QSY but I don't
> want someone else controlling my radio and possibly making it transmit
> outside of my frequency allocations.
>
>
>
> I've never seen this before and needless to say I was more than surprised.
> I'm glad that I caught it in time.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
>
> Bill - AK6A
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