Hello Tom- You have a good point about the possibility of QRM on the Hounds frequency when returning the signal report transmission. Perhaps they will modify the protocol to include the Hound shifting frequency on that transmission. Earlier in the thread it was suggested some receivers need to have their AGC disabled for maximum decoding efficiency. However, the number of successful Qs/min completed is phenomenal compared to previous multiple stns decoding. 73; Bill W2PKY
On Sun, Aug 11, 2024 at 12:08 PM Tom Hauer via wsjt-devel < wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > First, This is an awesome addition to FT8 capability. It works great on > the hound end, and having up to 9 streams on the fox end is amazing. The > best part is the verification, that is a home run. Thank you to all on the > team for an amazing effort. > > Second, an observation. I have been watching N5J on multiple bands as > they work this new mode (and have worked them on all my active bands on > FT8). I noticed that the first time success rate for them completing a QSO > seems to be lower than on standard Fox/Hound, they have 2, 3 or more > retransmits of the S/N and quite a few that drop off because they don't > appear to decode a response even when the S/N they send is well above -10. > And, as a result this is lowering their successful QSO rate. I am wondering > if this has to do with the fact that the hound frequency is not shifted and > that there is the potential for much more interference from other signals > on and around the hound frequency. Here is STX even my waterfall can get > quite crowded with strong signals overlapping. I can't imagine what they > see!! Don't know if that is having an impact but just my thought! > > Thanks again for an awesome job. > > Tom Hauer, K0YA > ARES Emergency Coordinator > Blanco, Burnet, Llano Counties > ARRL ARES District 8, STX Section > TDEM RACES District 12-053 > 319 551-9788 > rdrnr...@gmail.com > PO Box 1522 (mailing ADR) > 11700 E FM 1431 R37 > Marble Falls, Tx 78654 > EM00wn > Latitude: 30.568805 > Longitude: -98.140287 > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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