Sorry guys - pandora's box has already been opened. I do not support automatic, unattended robot QSOs (which are illegal in USA and some other countries) but to ignore it as not happening is denying reality. Stathis has demonstrated this some months ago and I am certain that many are using his technique (macros) without modifying WSJT-X source.
What we can hope is that people exercise their good judgment and not abuse it. Or just realize that some people will always "cheat" and live by your own moral compass. Ria N2RJ On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 at 17:58, Jim Brown <k...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > > On 3/31/2019 9:53 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: > > most Amateur Radio operators would not consider a QSO with a machine to > > be worthwhile and to find out that they had done so unknowingly would be > > very annoying. > > That depends on what you might be trying to accomplish. I certainly > would automate my FT8 operation in this manner, but about a year ago I > made a QSO with a robot KX3 floating from KH6 to the west coast of NA on > a scientific raft studying oceanography of some sort. That QSO went into > my log, because my operation was not robotic! And it filled in a very > rare CQ Field for that award. > > Likewise, if I'm trying to add EU countries on 160M, I really don't care > what is creating and controlling the signal on the other end of the QSO. > My accomplishment is building RX and TX antennas that will get my signal > from near San Francisco 6,000 miles over the auroral oval to EU, and dig > that station's signal out of the noise. When I count that for DXCC, I > did my part of the work. > > OTOH, I do view auto-CQ in any form, attended or not, as cluttering up > the spectrum. I almost never call CQ using FT8 on any band but 6M, and > even there do so sparingly. And I'm talking about the auto-repeat CQ > built into WSJT-X. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel -- Ria Jairam, N2RJ Director, Hudson Division ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™ +1.973.594.6275 https://hudson.arrl.org n...@arrl.org _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
