Jon, I could not agree more. I risk getting my “head bitten off” by commenting on this (and supporting your concerns) … but in a “far away” land to many on the outskirts of a rural city I often rely heavily on working low level signals. Some of the behaviour of the FH “hounds” in the “main active” regions for FT8 and JT65 when “foxes” are transmitting in main regions is atrocious. It creates nothing but sometimes a segment full of stations seeking the one “fox” to the absolute neglect of other stations – often stomping on and swamping rare DX that some of us are trying to work. The rules of “listen before you Tx” is frequently broken – and you can see from “Pskreporter” that stations have seen you before they have transmitted over you.
Ok this can be said the same of working traditionally … but volume and hence clutter is usually not that bad compared to especially DX-pedition sites that use multiple operational slots. DX “foxes” should be encouraged actively to use less active band areas and be respectful of other users – work to concepts that are embedded in many of the DX-pedition codes of conduct. Likewise this encourages better “hound” conduct (that is really the problem). Better conduct and band utilisation could be heavily assisted by making “active suggestion” to move FH activity to other less populated sections of the spectrum allocations ☺ Of course this can be over-riddden easily as well with a bit of knowledge of the wsjtx (and derivative) products ☺ 73 de Steve VK3VM/VK3SIR From: Jon Anhold <j...@anhold.com> Sent: Friday, 6 December 2019 9:25 AM To: WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [wsjt-devel] Feature Suggestion: Fox Mode Many of the DXpeditions using fox/hound mode tend to use the same frequencies. It'd be nifty, at least I think, if you could add those frequencies to WSJT-X (as you can today) with a flag to have it automatically switch to Fox mode when those frequencies are selected -- and back OUT of Fox mode when you go back to the "normal" watering hole frequency. 73 de KM8V
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