Bill, please name one contest that takes place on reserved frequencies?
There are none. Every other contest allows casuals to jump in and work
who they want. Most participants in a contest are casual ops and not
really competing to win anything.
The software should just be able to complete a contact regardless of
mode or simplify the exchange for all contacts. I have yet to hear a
good reason why we need multiple exchange sequences in FT8.
W0MU
On 7/24/2018 5:50 AM, Bill Barrett wrote:
Perhaps these contests should be on a separate frequency designated to
be operated as "contest mode"?
Bill W2PKY
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM W0MU Mike Fatchett <w...@w0mu.com
<mailto:w...@w0mu.com>> wrote:
First of all I want to thank everyone for this great advancement
in the
hobby!
The CQ WW VHF was my first exposure to contest mode and it was a very
frustrating 27 hours.
If I am in contest mode and I call CQ and get an answer from
someone who
is not, there is essentially no way to complete a qso unless one side
changes into or out of contest mode. What happened to me is I would
switch and then the other side would switch and we would be opposite.
Frustrating!
The main issue is that we cannot expect those not in the contest
to have
to switch into a specific mode to work us. This does not happen
in any
other contest. We cannot expect this from casual ops. I am glad
they
want to work me. Being able to work them should be painless too!
Why is contest mode needed? If a qso is good in contest mode with
less
sequences I suggest that all FT8 exchanges be the same. Is there a
specific reason two have multiple sets of exchanges for in a
contest and
not in a contest? I don't think so.
I understand that this was an issue for the June VHF contest too.
If you guys can move my xmit around in fox/hound mode, which
worked out
really well, there has to be a solution for this. I believe that the
fox was still able to work people not running hound? We need the
same
ability in contest mode.
I believe that this is already being examined but I thought I
would give
my feedback. I would be happy to provide more information if desired.
Thanks again for all the hard work in bringing us FT8!
W0MU
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