Well said, Grant. From where I sit, very active on 6M, and both DX
chasing and contesting on HF and MF, the only poor decisions made by by
the design team are based on their lack of broad experience below VHF.
That's the only possible explanation for how 40M FT4 ended up where it did.
Your comments are spot on, and describe how active contesters and DX
chasers operate, and the PITA you describe is 1) why configurations are
NOT a viable solution, and why main screen access to OPERATIONAL
controls like Fox/Hound mode and Contest Mode is vital to serious
operators.
73, Jim K9YC
On 10/10/2021 6:49 PM, Grant Willis via wsjt-devel wrote:
Neil,
I wish to take a moment please to outline what I see is the problem with
the configuration options as a solution that everyone keeps answering
with when this comes up. I dont think the case why the configuration
mode changes annoy many has ever been clearly articulated.
If I am tuning around the band and see some FT8, dial my receiver onto
it and see what is happening. If I see they are running in F/H mode -
then if I use configurations to change to that mode, I need to often a)
add a frequency to the config, b) reselect the frequency I was just on
and c) loose the waterfall history I would want to use to pick where to
drop my transmitter to start calling.
In quick fire DX Chasing that is all lost time and multiplication of
effort that to be frank is a PITA.
The reason people keep asking for a button to switch to hound mode and
back on the main screen is so they can do what people should more
naturally be doing - that is spin the dial of their radio, look at
what's on the band, and then pick the right mode to work what they hear
*/_quickly and efficiently_/*. Sure the work arounds work - but they are
clunky and kludgy to a DX operator.
The alternative solutions might be - preserve the
frequency/band/sub-frequency settings across a configuration settings
change and get the waterfall not to be reset when you swap
configurations. I believe that would be much more work for the
programming team than having a simple tick switch linked to hound mode
on / off on the main page. Having said that, the developers have made it
clear they are not interested - so yes it is also a lost cause.
Oh and to those that say "grab the source and roll your own" - not
everyone can or has the time to write software and roll their own.
Regards,
Grant VK5GR
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