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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