And, importantly, the 6 character grid is used when submitting reports
to pskreporter (so that it knows where to put your marker). I get a
number of people asking me to "correct" their location, and I tell them
to use the full locator in wsjt-x.
Philip
On 16/10/2017 22:06, Joe Taylor wrote:
Hi Dave,
On 10/16/2017 7:08 PM, David Fisher wrote:
I’m proof reading the 1.8 RC 3 document. Here’s something I’ve
noticed before that might be helpful.
As I understand it (and I’m probably wrong), the “Settings, General,
My Grid” field accepts 6 character grid information such as CM97bq
(my grid). I discovered this accidentally when I was trying to
figure out how to send the full grid information in WSPR messages.
In my view, it’s not obvious that all six characters can or should be
input, given that only four are usually used in FT8, JT64, JT9 etc.
Perhaps a short paragraph detailing this would be helpful.
Dave / NX6D
Near its beginning, Section 4.1 of the WSJT-X User Guide includes
these sentences:
"Select the General tab on the Settings window. Under Station Details
enter your callsign, grid locator (preferably the 6-character locator)
and IARU Region number."
As you say, only the leading four characters are used in standard
JT-style messages. But when they are available, the full 6-digit
locators are used (for example) in computing distances, bearings, EME
Doppler shifts, and the like.
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