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
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