If it's a new call I haven't worked, my logger automatically looks the
call in qrz or if it's previously worked, it grabs it from the old log
entry. What logger are you using, mine is DXLabs?
73 Dwight NS9I
On 4/13/2019 9:13 AM, DX Jami via wsjt-devel wrote:
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
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*From:* 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
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