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
> >>>
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