Frank,
Fox and Hound was never in the main FT8 channels – indeed I believe Bill, Frank Joe and the team coded the system to not let you run F/H mode on the main FT8 channels. There have been non WSJT based “derivatives” that unfortunately did not give due consideration to the problems of mixing F/H mode with standard FT8 traffic. Regards, Grant VK5GR From: Frank Kirschner [mailto:frank.kirsch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 22 April 2019 3:18 AM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Suggestion for Additional Checkbox On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:19 PM Neil Zampella <ne...@techie.com> wrote: There is already a F/H mode, safely placed where it can't be accidentally checked as the old VHF contest box (at least I believe it was the VHF contest) was at one point. The suggestion has been to clone your current FT8 configuration, and set up the frequencies in that clone to the DXPedition frequencies. All you have to do is switch to that configuration, and you're already set to go. However, if you're talking about being able to switch because you see what looks like F/H in the standard FT8 frequencies, its not WSJT-X DXPedition mode, but another program using the FT8 sources for encode/decode but a different 'multi-thread' mode that does NOT block out the standard frequencies. That's not completely accurate. Initially, most F/H operation was in the regular band segment, but as those segments filled up, DX stations moved to the alternate frequencies. I have worked DX stations in F/H mode in the regular band segments. That's becoming less frequent, though. Since I mostly hunt DX, I don't just look for DX on the band activity window in WSJT-X. I use a DX cluster and jump to the indicated frequency directly. Since clusters now indicate the transmitted frequency instead of the QRG, I have to manually change the VFO frequency to the correct one. Then I look for the DX station, and decide if it's using F/H mode. It would be convenient to switch to F/H with one click. 73, Frank KF6E I would not want to see such a change as it then rewards bad behavior (IMHO). Neil, KN3ILZ On 4/20/2019 5:46 PM, Frank Kirschner wrote: > Between the Hold Tx Freq checkbox and the Call 1st checkbox, there is > room for several more checkboxes. One I would suggest is Fox/Hound > mode. I would also suggest this automatically set Split to either Rig > or Fake It, which could be selected somewhere else. > > If the menus are turned off, it takes a while to turn them on and > navigate to the correct spot to set fox/hound and split mode. This > sometimes is long enough to miss a weak one. A checkbox would not only > make it faster, but it would encourage using that mode for those who > are still learning FT8 operation. > > 73, > Frank > KF6E --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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