Hi Andy.
What if you did receive a signal report from a station participating in the contest? Would you then be ambivalent to whether your QSO partner was "in the contest" or not? For example, if your QSO partner is in contest mode but also had the ability to manually initiate a SNR message, he could adapt to anyone sending him an SNR message. Yes, that "slows" the contester down, but many times the rate is low anyway. In any case, it is an incremental QSO for the contester and it would be nice to have the choice. My vision is that someday contests can provide activity for contesters and non-contesters alike, with complete transparency. The FT modes are well-suited for this. I'm interested to understand the current limitations and what it will take to achieve the vision. 73, Ed W0YK From: Andy Durbin <a.dur...@msn.com> Sent: 21 July, 2019 10:18 To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [wsjt-devel] Contest confusion I chose not to participate in the RTTY contest but still wished to make FT8 QSO on 6 meters. I called CQ K3WYC DM33 thus indicating I was not in the contest. Multiple stations answered me and replied to my report with "R grid". Since these stations provided no report they were not logged. There needs to be a better way of separating contest participants from those with no interest in the contest. The contest cannot be allowed to take over standard FT8 frequencies. (I am not anti-contest. I have worked many CW contests and a quite a few phone and RTTY contests. I simply choose not to use WSJT-X modes for contesting) 73, Andy, k3wyc
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