On 6/23/19 12:53 PM, Palle Preben-Hansen, OZ1RH wrote:
Hi Palle,
Claude, at present this is not unwanted switching to EU VHF mode, but
the naming or wording of what is happening is misleading.
The situation seems to be that you work a station that is in a contest
requiring an exchange of a serial number and/or the full locator (a
6-digit locator). In order to receive this from you he currently has to
enable the EU VHF mode which confuses you. This has nothing to do with
EU VHF, it is just an exchange of an 'oldfasioned' report, a serial
number and the full locator. A serial number is needed in many other
contests or QSO-parties than at VHF in EU.
I'm not sure how I should call it, but after this QSO, a red
backgrounded field containing "EU VHF" appeared in the main window. When
I opened Settings -> advanced, this contest mode wss clearly switched ON.
The function of WSJT-X and the nomenclature in the menu should be that
each station requests the kind of exchange he needs from his QSO partner
for whatever QSO-party or contest he is in. Then you send him what he
wants and you receive the exchange you want. This may not be the same
kind of exchange and you do not need to be in the same QSO-party or
contest, but both of you receive and log the exchange you need. Then no
confusing windows about a VHF or special contest mode is needed.
I had to revert manually to the "normal" mode, in Settings -> advanced.
But the contest mode was switched ON automatically. I had no opportunity
to refuse this mode switching.
There seems to be an error when logging the 6-digit locator in the
<STATE> field. This is probably caused by the assumption that both
stations send and receive the same type of exchange. The
logging could be fixed so each station logs the exchange received for
his own contest.
According to the ADIF specs, the <STATE> field can only contain the
primary administrative information. The specs give information about the
possible values of this field. I had to remove manually from the log
this <STATE> field with this erroneous value.
88, Claude (DJ0OT)
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