There are so many times on FT8 or FT4 that the station you are in QSO with is buried in QRM by a signal they probably don't even know is on their audio frequency.
On future releases of FT4 or FT8, if there is ever a spare bit in the message formats, I propose adding a "please QSY to my tx audio frequency" bit. There would be a "Pse QSY: button on the user interface that would be off by default. There would be an indicator to the other op that a QSY is requested, and it is up to them whether or not to hit the up arrow button to sync TX frequencies. There have been several times on 6 meters recently where this could have been helpful, and would have cut down on all of the repeats back and forth. Thanks for your consideration & 73, Tim N6GP Hi Tim, I have used with some success free text message ’N6GP QSY HR’, also ‘N6GP UP 150’ may work. I think that bit will be too ‘expensive’, if you want to send it with other information such as grid, ‘-20’, ‘R-20’, ‘RR73’ or ‘RRR’. If it sent as ‘N6GP OH3MA QSY’, where QSY means what you proposed, then that value may fit in. On the other hand it would be just another message and free text may work as well. 73, Reino OH3mA
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