On 29/11/2018 04:47, Paul Kube wrote:
Is there any way to control colors of a non-CQ message? There doesn't
seem to be, and I would like to do that.
For example:, I'd like to have a visual cue when someone not in the
log is finishing a QSO, so I know they're not a dupe and I can tailend
without waiting for their next CQ: highlight their "W1XYZ K0ABC 73"
message. (This came up a lot in this evening's mock contest.)
Possible?
Hi Paul,
not currently. Clearly applying decode colour highlighting to non-CQ
messages is very desirable and it is on the to-do list but is not
trivial to implement given the current code base. Also some sort of
mechanism to highlight new multipliers, in contests like the ARRL RTTY
RU where multipliers are not covered by the current decode highlighting
facility, would be equally desirable for serious contest operators.
For some background, as the speed of QSOs has increased and the number
of decodes has increased with modes like FT8 on HF, it has become
necessary for WSJT-X to do more and more interpretation of message
content for it to be anything like satisfying and ergonomic to use. This
has evolved organically on top a framework that was originally developed
to just display the decoded messages and let he user make all the
decisions about what to transmit next and what to log at the end of a
QSO. Some fairly major internal reworking is desperately needed to make
further implementation like this practical without introducing many new
defects as a side-effect.
As always, finding the balance of developing a tool that makes digital
communication by amateur radio fun and requires traditional aspects of
operating skill to do it well without making an automated QSO server
that spoils the fun for everyone.
I wonder if anyone has reverted to the old fashioned dupe sheet
techniques using a pen and paper? I always used to use an A3 sheet
divided into 26 boxes for each letter of the alphabet and enter worked
calls indexed by the first letter of the end letters part of their
callsign, e.g. my call G4WJS would be written into the 'W' square when
worked. Another sheet was used for mults worked, ok until trying the WPX
contest!
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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