Roger, That's life. By the way do you have means how to get the grid from a special call station? Of course you don't need to work those at all, hi! 73, Reino OH3mA
Subject: Re: [WSJTX] FT8 Logging Problem!
And a surprising number of them send RRR and later 73 so they're not actually saving a cycle.
I like to receive the grid so I treat them as in incomplete QSO.
Roger G4HZA
On 10/05/2020 16:46, Reino Talarmo wrote:
Hi Steve,
Sending message 2 as the first message does not indicate a contest mode at all. Those users just want to save one timeslot.
Reino OH3mA
From: WSJTX@groups.io [mailto:WSJTX@groups.io] On Behalf Of Steve Kavanagh via groups.io Sent: 10. toukokuuta 2020 17:35 To: WSJTX@groups.io Subject: Re: [WSJTX] FT8 Logging Problem!
I had one case where a station (not in contest mode) called me using message 2, so he never sent his grid. As I understand it, WSJT-X is supposed to switch the non-contest-mode station into contest mode when a contest-mode exchange is received, but this combination of events didn't produce a valid contest QSO. Not sure if there is a software fix.
I think those of us who are interested in VHF contests need to put on a big educational push so that those VHFers who are not particularly interested in contests learn about contest modes and how and when to use them....they only give up a signal report. I think the same is true of HF digital contesting, but I have spent less time at that and don't have as much of a feel for how many contest-mode compatibility problems exist there.
