>From all indications they're out with the torches and pitchforks to ban FT8 from "serious" contesting anyway. So you won't have to put up with this for too long.
I really don't get it... FT8 has brought many more out to play radio on a contest weekend (and other times). Maybe some people just love hearing dead air. Ria N2RJ On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 19:16, John Kludt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > I just work'em. Most don't seem to mind. I have an exchange of calls and > grids. Yes, I suppose if for some reason somebody not in the contest where > to decide to send in a log and they hadn't logged me because they didn't get > a signal report - why would they send in a log as they are not in the contest > - I could get dinged. In this weekends contest I did not have a single > person persist in sending R-xx. They just seemed to move on, too. If they > didn't, I did and let it go. > > The real answer is to move to FT4. From the ground up, a contest mode. > Using 6 as an example let the non-contesters have FT8 and 50.313 and move the > contesters to FT4 and 50.318. If you can run FT8 you can run FT4. The > upgrade is a no-brainer. And FT4 is really, really fast and you have to pay > attention - actually very cool! > > How much more kvetching we going to have about this? It's a hobby. > > John > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 6:34 PM Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 7/22/19 at 4:03 PM, [email protected] (Laurie, VK3AMA) wrote: >> >> >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 >> >> I'm sorry to disagree Laurie. On my Mac (10.14.6 with wsjt-x >> v2.1.0 24fcd1), when I switch between my F&H configuration and >> my plain QSO one, I lose all my waterfall history, and my two >> windows become top left justified on top of each other. They >> also return to their default sizes. There's a big cost to get >> things back to a workable configuration and refill the >> waterfall. It may just be better to pay the mouse clicks to go >> to the Advanced menu. >> >> Does anyone else see this behavior? >> >> 73 Bill AE6JV >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Bill Frantz | When an old person dies, a | Periwinkle >> (408)356-8506 | library burns. - Joe McGawon | 16345 >> Englewood Ave >> www.pwpconsult.com | Irish Ethnographer | Los Gatos, >> CA 95032 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
