[WIQPmail] No FT8/FT4

[Chuck Dellis]

Andre—nice summary!  These are the issues that we run into when trying to adapt FT8/FT4 QSOs to the WIQP.  I suspect that in the near future there may be some software changes where the modes may be easily integrated into more contests.

 

Have a great time this weekend and hope to hear you on the air!

 

73, Chuck--W9WLX

WIQP Committee

 

From: WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail-bounces at warac.org> On Behalf Of Andre Robitaille via WIQP-Mail
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:24 AM
To: Wisconsin QSO Party Reflector <wiqp-mail at warac.org>
Cc: Andre Robitaille <wt9x at icloud.com>; Jim Borowski <jim.gmforum at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WIQPmail] No FT8/FT4

 

That breaks a lot of logging software and DX spotting, and a handful of other things. Everything I come across expects prefixes and suffixes to be a separate callsign from your real callsign.

 

FT8/4 just aren't build for auto generating messages for contests. That seems to be the only genuine reason holding it back. The whole auto-contact stuff is mostly just gatekeeping, though it's true that I can just call CQ and auto-increment and walk away to do other stuff.

 

Andre

WT9X

 


On March 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Jim Borowski via WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail at warac.org <mailto:wiqp-mail at warac.org> > wrote:

Larry

Couldn't you put in the call sign WA9YSD/MIL ?

 

 

 

Jim K9TF

 

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device

 


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