Here's something a little different. How about inviting stations to "vote" on whether a given DX station should change to DXpedition mode? I have in mind a new message format, or free text string, that they can send. At the DX end, activating DXpedition mode is dependent on having received, say, 5 positive votes from 5 different stations within the past hour. Once there, remaining in DXpedition mode requires that they make at least 50 QSOs per hour, otherwise they automatically revert to the general mode ... and start again collecting votes.
For completeness, it might be appropriate to count both yes and no votes, so the active community could block or terminate someone's use of DXpedition mode by voting them down. Or something. I'm explicitly talking about on-air voting, not some Internet based poll. Seems to me the hams who are active on-air are the ones who should decide what happens, not the wider Internet community. 73 Gary ZL2iFB -----Original Message----- From: Alex, VE3NEA <alsh...@dxatlas.com> Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2018 5:20 a.m. To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 CQ Fox block possible? On 2018-05-09 10:40, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote: > There apparently was somebody on 20M FT8 last night in Fox mode from a relatively rare location and caused a mess on 14.074. > Everybody though he was calling simple CQ but was Fox so wasn't > hearing them and users were crowding the lower end of 20M trying to get him making even the the Fox/Hound exchange problematic. > > I don't think we can leave this up to "operator responsibility" as there are just too many out there..... I have seen quite a few semi-rare DX stations using the Fox mode recently. While I think they are doing a wrong thing, I can understand their temptation to increase their QSO rate by using the feature available in the software. Currently WSJT-X has two modes of operation, the standard mode (for non-DX stations) and the Fox mode (for rare DX). Maybe it is time to add a third mode, optimized for semi-rare DX. In this mode, there DX would transmit only one signal, anywhere in the standard FT8 segment, and the Hounds would not have to call above 1000 HZ and then jump below 1000 Hz to send the signal report, they would work the same way as in the standard mode. The difference from the standard mode would be only on the Fox side, the DX station would be allowed to send the DXpedition-style messages like "K9AN RR73; N7QT <W7/KH7Z> -05" to double their Q rate, and would have a queue function to make operation more convenient. I am sure that many semi-rare DX would use this mode instead of the Fox mode if it were available. What do you think? 73 Alex VE3NEA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
