Folks, I am going to speak heresy here - but I wonder if there are any bits left in the protocols to have a flag bit that simply broadcasts what mode the station is in that you are trying to work? The bit is set to "1" for Fox mode or "0" for anything else. Then people's software can just pick up what mode is required and automatically switch modes.
Too many times I see Fox QSOs fail because too many people are not in fox mode and are QRMing the fox stations receive sub-channels. I lost 4 QSO attempts to 7Q7RU on 17m last night because there were people calling them on their TX sub-channel not in fox mode. 7Q7RU would hear me calling up n the hounds section - give me a report of -8 or so and then when I QSYed they couldn't hear me anymore because of the QRM of stations not clearing out when they should. Alternatively have a no QSY mode in Fox Mode so that the hounds answer in place rather than QSY down. The theory being if they were heard once then there perhaps is a higher probability of being heard the second time to take the reply if the hound station doesn't do the QSY. Just observations of what is going on, on the air..... Regards, Grant VK5GR -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Dippel [mailto:dieter.dip...@online.de] Sent: Monday, 16 November 2020 8:42 PM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [wsjt-devel] Wish-Dream: Button to toggle between Normal- & Hound-Mode Dear WSJT-X Developer-Team, my main interest for 40 years plus is "DXing" in all modes. For FT8/FT4 I'm using WSJT-X now for some years. Since FOX-/Hound-Mode became more and more favourite, one of my wishes (dreams) is a Button on the Screen to toggle (switch) between Normal-Mode and Hound-Mode. Maybe I don't know how improve it, but for me it's always very complex (cumbersome) to move to 1st => File 2nd => Settings 3rd => Advanced 4th => Special Operating Activity 5th => Hound-Mode ... well, and the same procedure to switch back to "Normal-Mode" ... The Button could be placed on the same position as the ***RED*** White *** Hound *** is located as soon as you are starting the Hound-Mode. If this doesen't make sense in your opinion, it would be great if you can discuss about a ***Keyboard-Shortcut***to make it much more comfortable ;-)) 73 es good luck to all of you de Dieter, DF4RD _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
