Hi Conrad,
What is the status of the FO/W7GJ expedition? Is Lance making 6m EME
QSOs as planned? I am concerned that he may not have adequately tested
use of a compound callsign in JT65 and Q65 modes with WSJT-X 2.5.0.
We have identified four problems that are likely affecting Lance's
operation as FO/W7GJ:
1. In JT65 mode, when either MyCall or DxCall is a compound call the
automatically generated Tx2 message is incorrectly formatted.
2. In Q65 mode, the hashed forms of "MyCall" and "DxCall" are not
properly initialized on program startup. If either of these hash codes
is received before the corresponding full callsign is decoded, the
result is displayed as <...>.
3. In Q65 mode the automatically generated messages for Tx4 and Tx5 are
"W7GJ PA5Y RRR" and "W7GJ PA5Y 73". They should instead be of the form
"FO/W7GJ <PA5Y> RRR" and "FO/W7GJ <PA5Y> 73".
4. In Q65 mode, decodes of type "q3" are not produced for messages
containing a compound or nonstandard callsign.
In spite of defect #1, JT65 QSOs can be completed in the usual way,
using shorthand messages, if you manually edit the Tx2 field to be equal
to Tx1 but with an appended " OOO".
Defect #2 is annoying but becomes harmless after the full callsign has
been decoded.
Defects #3 and #4 can cause degraded sensitivity by failing to allow
decodes of type q3.
These problems have all been fixed, and a version 2.5.1 could be made
available soon. But, is there any way to get it to Lance? Failing
that, I think his best bet may be to use JT65 while in FO, and whoever
sends message Tx2 will need to edit it manually to one of the forms
K1ABC FO/W7GJ OOO
FO/W7GJ K1ABC OOO
Does all of this make sense to you?
-- Joe, K1JT
On 10/18/2021 6:09 AM, Conrad PA5Y via wsjt-devel wrote:
Hello team.
Last night I was attempting to work FO/W7GJ on Q65-60A. My question is
about the population of TX4 and TX5.
When I Generate standard messages, I see TX1-3 are correct.
TX1 <FO/W7GJ> PA5Y JO21
TX2 <FO/W7GJ> PA5Y -27
TX3 <FO/W7GJ> PA5Y R-27
However, the compound call is omitted from TX4 and TX5
TX4 W7GJ PA5Y RRR
TX5 W7GJ PA5Y 73
Is this expected behaviour? I can see that it does not affect the
validity of a QSO as all the necessary information has already been
passed. However, I noticed last night the following.
0307 -8 0.0 699 : FO/W7GJ <...> RRR
Obviously tropo but in this TX4 example the compound call appears to
have been transmitted, whereas in my case above it is not.
Regards
Conrad PA5Y
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