Dick,
Agree with you Dick. It is a big pain to log an "abbreviated" FT8 QSO which
omits the grid square. I used to use
http://www.levinecentral.com/ham/grid_square.php to look up missing grids.
With the grid square competition now history ... grids to some are less
important. Altho I am not a grid square collector - I always looked up the
missing grid square because my "logs" required them. Of course we can not log
an FT8 contact into the grid square database without a valid grid square.
However, we can log an FT8 exchange into our "FT8 contact" log without a grid.
It simply has no entry for the grid square data element. This is not a big
show stopper because my logging program updates certain missing fields when I
import the WSJT-X log.adi file.
But fundamentally Dick, when working as a DX station, I simply ignore stations
which do not go thru the entire FT8 exchange sequence because many of them are
QRMing my in-progress QSO and simply being rude, like I said previously. I
hear several people talk about speeding up FT8 exchanges by eliminating certain
parts of the FT8 sequences. For the most part, I reject that argument. Maybe
we all have a lot of time on our hands even if we are working FT8, and working
one more redundant DXCC entity is perhaps no big deal.
Have a good day.
Danny W4/AH6FX - Virignia
On Friday, April 12, 2019, 5:38:40 PM EDT, Richard Solomon
<w1...@outlook.com> wrote:
As fast as FT8 is, there are folks who want a QSO completed faster.
It's a real pain, especially if I have to look up the guys call to get his
Grid Square. And, if it's a portable operation, it's even more difficult.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
Sent from OutlookFrom: Timothy Hickman <timothyhick...@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 11:44 AM
To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [wsjt-devel] FT8 calling CQ I have noticed lately that when I send CQ
on FT8 A few stations start
their respond with the signal report not their grid square.
Is there something here I do not understand?
Tim
N3JON
_______________________________________________
wsjt-devel mailing list
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
_______________________________________________
wsjt-devel mailing list
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
_______________________________________________
wsjt-devel mailing list
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
