A bit prissy to exclude a station that lacks a signal report. You both ack'd each other. obviously the call took place.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 6:53 AM Fred Price <n...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Ed, > > You do know that if you are using LoTW to confirm your QSO's then all that is > needed for a valid QSO is: > Exchange of calls > Band > Date > Time +/-30 minutes > > So it makes no difference if your signal report is a SNR or a grid square. > However since it is your station it is your choice on how you log. > Have fun n enjoy after all it's not life of death it's just a hobby. > > Fred > N2XK > > On Jul 22, 2019 12:01 AM, Ed Muns <e...@w0yk.com> wrote: > > Great tip, Laurie. > > This is a good technique if one can reasonably assume that the majority of > QSO partners sending a signal report will not complete the QSO, or log it, > if the contester only sends a Grid Square. > > IOW, if a contester set to NA VHF Contest mode connects up with a > "non-contester" set to normal mode (Special Activity unchecked), and both > are configured for Auto Seq, then the QSO will complete without any operator > intervention. However, the contester will not have sent a signal report to > the non-contester. That may be an issue, because the non-contester may > continue to send his SNR message, hoping to elicit an SNR in return. Or, he > may not log the contact because he never received an SNR from the contester. > This may not be a problem for the contester, because the non-contester is > unlikely to submit a Cabrillo log, so the contester will avoid a NIL. > > Back to your tip of setting up two instances of WSJT-X, one with NA VHF > Contest mode enabled and one with Special Activity unchecked. This is a > good technique for the contester to get another QSO in the log that > otherwise would not happen, IF the assumption is the majority of "mixed" > QSOs as described above will not complete successfully because the > non-contester is concerned that he didn't receive a signal report. > > The contester has to decide whether to power through the QSO in the NA VHF > Contest mode, or to on-the-fly switch to his "SNR Configuration" that uses > the standard non-contest message sequence and indeed sends an SNR message to > the non-contester. > > Ed W0YK > > -----Original Message----- > From: Laurie, VK3AMA <_vk3a...@vkdxer.net> > Sent: 21 July, 2019 16:04 > To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Contest confusion > > On 22/07/2019 7:16 am, Jim Brown wrote: > > so I quickly switched out of contest mode to work him. :) > > > > What I WOULD like is to able to do this without going to Settings > > Advanced. All those clicks loses a TX cycle. > > > > 73, Jim K9YC > > Simple and only requires a single mouse click. Setup two configurations > in WSJT-X, one for you desired contest and the other non-contest. Once > setup, it is a single click using the "Configuration" menu to switch > between contest and non-contest. > > de Laurie VK3AMA > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
