whoosh - sharp intake of breath
Rich you are Sooo... picky,
73 = best regards
73s = more than one best regards
73's = 73, his best regards.
As I understand, 's is possesive, so "Richard's email" is shorthand for
"Richard, his email". I'd love to be corrected.
Nice to see the new world is equally saddled with medieval language structures.
..But in a software forum, punctuation is crucial.
So you are forgiven.
My two cents worth is;-
Before I transmit I listen a lot and use the spectrum display to select slots
that are "empty" on both time periods. I have the magic "hold tx freq" box
checked most always. Sending CQ I use one of these frequencies and after a few
cycles rest and check both time slots again. If I get no replies I use another
frequency.
On every band each receiving station has an individual spectrum to deal with,
close-in vs dx. It's impossible to know what the station on the other end is
receiving. The only feedback is "is he replying to me?"
So, If I am calling a DX station on what I think is a clear frequency and
getting no replies, I try another, and another. If still no success I think to
myself, maybe he thinks like me, maybe I don't have to look for a clear
frequency, the DX station has already done that and is CQ'ing on it, so I call
on his frequency, unchecking the magic "hold tx freq" box. Not easy going
forward as the software switches you off if it detects the DX is involved in
another QSO. But sometimes it works immediately. The clever bit is to remember
the magic box is unchecked as you go on your way afterward. At age 70 I don't
think of myself as a LID, I have 50 years of operating experience in there
somewhere but my usual memory addressing algorithm seems to have changed, maybe
i missed the update, so ... I make mistakes.
Summary - I never have any expectation that this is "my" frequency, it is too
dynamic. I run 100W to wire antennae so getting good dx QSOs without kW+ to a
beam means being very flexible and frequency/time hopping, not just frequency
warming. It is S&P done biologically hihi.
Regarding time slots, in Europe we try to obey a rule that stations beaming
east use the odd slot (Tx even/1st check box UNCHECKED) and vice versa. I think
this tallies with your convention.
Huge thanks to the WSJT software team
Regards,
Paul G3NJV
________________________________
From: Rich Zwirko - K1HTV <k1...@comcast.net>
Sent: 29 July 2019 16:37
To: Mike - W9MDB Black <mdblac...@yahoo.com>; WSJT
<wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Lid operators or bad design?
Hi Mike,
Good on the note, but I'd correct the last line "73's".
73 means 'Best Regards'.
73's translates to "Best Regards's" (Regardses) 8-).
I know, picky, picky.
Regarding emailing 'educational' notes, I regularly do so to loud locals who
call CQ on 6 Meter FT8 during the 1st & 3rd 15 second sequences when the band
is open to Europe and Africa.
A TX sequencing convention for openings to Europe/Africa, has been agreed upon
by the majority of 6M DXers. NA stations call CQ only during the 2nd & 4th
sequences (Tx even/1st check box UNCHECKED). Very strong out of sequence
stations cause the receiver's AGC to push very weak DX further into the noise.
When all 6M DXers in the region are all using the same Tx sequence, we all have
a better chance to decode weak DX signals.
Later in the day, when it looks like we have possible SSSP propagation to
Japan, the sequencing convention is reversed. North American stations call CQ
during the 1st & 3rd (Even) sequence. JA DXers religiously adhere to
transmitting 2&4 to NA and 1&3 (Even) to Europe.
73,
Rich - K1HTV
= = =
On 7/28/2019 11:01 AM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
Attribute it to inexperience....you should contact them and help to politely
educate them.
Something like
Hi there OM,
Saw you in a QSO with XXXX and after the QSO was complete you called CQ on the
same offset.
You should consider working people in split by choosing a Tx offset that is
clear of other signals (shift click will do that) in the waterfall and checking
"Hold Tx Freq" to keep your offset constant.
Of course I'm sure you know that calling CQ on somebody else's frequency is a
no-no.
73's
..........
de Mike W9MDB
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