At least on the ARRL end, full auto is being addressed. Ria N2RJ
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 6:57 AM James Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, the people who went off-reservation and decided to take outside > steps to make it fully automated despite it being said over and over that > making an “automated QSO machine” was never the intention certainly did not > help that cause. I know more than one disabled ham who has been able to > play in contests for the first time in decades because of FT8 and they’ll > be the ones getting hurt in the end. And before this becomes a back and > forth, I’ll head some of it off by saying that making “separate categories” > is not acceptable. > > > On Jul 24, 2019, at 7:45 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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