On 28/07/2019 20:56, Gary Kohtala - K7EK via wsjt-devel wrote:
Also those that call my station with a signal report on their first
transmission (no full callup and no grid).
I ignore folks like that. If they don't start the contact with a full
set of calls and grid square there will be no joy for them.
Best regards,
Gary, K7EK
Gary,
you need to rethink your approach otherwise you are going to be
considered very rude by many operators. Let's look at a couple of things
you may not have considered.
1) there's absolutely no requirement to exchange grids, except for on
VHF and up bands where the grid may be important to your QSO partner,
2) many stations are not able reply to your calls and include their
grid, i.e. any station with a non-standard call. Your attitude means you
will never work any of them unless you make exceptions to your draconian
rule,
3) on HF the most important reason for sending a grid is to get
receptions of one's decodes spotted on PSKReporter, surely it is up to
the sending station whether they want to see where their signal is being
decoded, not you; although you can choose to disable spotting to
PSKReporter,
4) WSJT-X in FT8, MSK144, and FT4 modes fully supports replying to CQ
calls with a Tx3 message rather than using the possibly redundant Tx2
message. I don't think it should be your choice to demand a grid from
your QSO partner unless you really need it, in which case you can ask
for it.
The only solid counter argument I can think of, other than on VHF and up
where grids can be very helpful to both parties, is that sending a grid
message or CQ with a grid where possible allows an extra check that a
decode is not a false one. This is because of the nature of the
information compression used in the WSJT-X modes makes callsigns in
false decodes very plausible and a check that the grid covers some part
of the call prefix's landmass is often the best indicator of a good
decode of such suspicious messages.
What's you opinion on using an RR73 message to finalize a QSO? I ask
because many stations like to shorten QSOs by a whole Tx and Rx period
by combining starting with a Tx3 reply and finishing with an RR73
message. Again this is fully supported by WSJT-X and can be very useful
in good copy conditions and I'm sure is appreciated by semi rare DX
stations that want to give confirmations to as many callers as possible.
Of course FT8 DXpedtion mode formalizes this even more for those most
high desirable DX stations that can attract many callers to a separate
frequency.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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