<html><body><div>Doubt you'll see me. You'll probably hear Etienne (K9ZN) on our radio. He wants the rookie category, so has to be just him.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Andre</div><div>WT9X</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br>On March 11, 2021 at 10:56 AM, "Chuck Dellis" <w9wlx@wi.rr.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;" vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US" class="msg-quote" data-mce-style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Have a great time this weekend and hope to hear you on the air!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">73, Chuck--W9WLX</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">WIQP Committee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> </span></p><div><div style="border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;" data-mce-style="border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail-bounces@warac.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andre Robitaille via WIQP-Mail<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> Wisconsin QSO Party Reflector <wiqp-mail@warac.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Andre Robitaille <wt9x@icloud.com>; Jim Borowski <jim.gmforum@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [WIQPmail] No FT8/FT4</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Andre</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">WT9X</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" class="MsoNormal" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><br>On March 11, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Jim Borowski via WIQP-Mail <<a href="mailto:wiqp-mail@warac.org" data-mce-href="mailto:wiqp-mail@warac.org">wiqp-mail@warac.org</a>> wrote:</p></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Larry</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Couldn't you put in the call sign WA9YSD/MIL ?</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div id="composer_signature"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #575757;" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #575757;">Jim K9TF</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #575757;" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #575757;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #575757;" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: #575757;">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span class="body-text-content">_______________________________________________</span><br><span class="body-text-content">WIQP-Mail mailing list</span><br><span class="body-text-content"><a href="mailto:WIQP-Mail@warac.org" data-mce-href="mailto:WIQP-Mail@warac.org">WIQP-Mail@warac.org</a></span><br><span class="body-text-content"><a href="http://mail.warac.org/mailman/listinfo/wiqp-mail_warac.org" data-mce-href="http://mail.warac.org/mailman/listinfo/wiqp-mail_warac.org">http://mail.warac.org/mailman/listinfo/wiqp-mail_warac.org</a></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><style class="existing-message-styles" type="text/css">.msg-quote p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;}
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