Hi Fred.
Yes, for LotW it doesn’t matter. This thread is about “Contest confusion” when a contester is sending only the required exchange of a Grid Square and his QSO partner is a non-contester using standard FT messages which include SNR. The non-contester may be confused if she doesn’t receive an SNR from the contester. That might lead to the non-contester persisting for several TX cycles re-sending her SNR, hoping to prod an SNR out of the contester. In the end, the non-contester may not log the QSO if she doesn’t receive an SNR. Ed W0YK From: Fred Price <[email protected]> Sent: 22 July, 2019 03:48 To: WSJT software development <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Contest confusion Ed, You do know that if you are using LoTW to confirm your QSO's then all that is needed for a valid QSO is: Exchange of calls Band Date Time +/-30 minutes So it makes no difference if your signal report is a SNR or a grid square. However since it is your station it is your choice on how you log. Have fun n enjoy after all it's not life of death it's just a hobby. Fred N2XK On Jul 22, 2019 12:01 AM, Ed Muns <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Great tip, Laurie. This is a good technique if one can reasonably assume that the majority of QSO partners sending a signal report will not complete the QSO, or log it, if the contester only sends a Grid Square. IOW, if a contester set to NA VHF Contest mode connects up with a "non-contester" set to normal mode (Special Activity unchecked), and both are configured for Auto Seq, then the QSO will complete without any operator intervention. However, the contester will not have sent a signal report to the non-contester. That may be an issue, because the non-contester may continue to send his SNR message, hoping to elicit an SNR in return. Or, he may not log the contact because he never received an SNR from the contester. This may not be a problem for the contester, because the non-contester is unlikely to submit a Cabrillo log, so the contester will avoid a NIL. Back to your tip of setting up two instances of WSJT-X, one with NA VHF Contest mode enabled and one with Special Activity unchecked. This is a good technique for the contester to get another QSO in the log that otherwise would not happen, IF the assumption is the majority of "mixed" QSOs as described above will not complete successfully because the non-contester is concerned that he didn't receive a signal report. The contester has to decide whether to power through the QSO in the NA VHF Contest mode, or to on-the-fly switch to his "SNR Configuration" that uses the standard non-contest message sequence and indeed sends an SNR message to the non-contester. Ed W0YK -----Original Message----- From: Laurie, VK3AMA <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: 21 July, 2019 16:04 To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Contest confusion On 22/07/2019 7:16 am, Jim Brown wrote: > so I quickly switched out of contest mode to work him. :) > > What I WOULD like is to able to do this without going to Settings > Advanced. All those clicks loses a TX cycle. > > 73, Jim K9YC Simple and only requires a single mouse click. Setup two configurations in WSJT-X, one for you desired contest and the other non-contest. Once setup, it is a single click using the "Configuration" menu to switch between contest and non-contest. de Laurie VK3AMA _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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