Chuk and Ron, Thanks for your answers. Last 2 days I ran FT4 out of contest and wasn't sure if I was having an ethical behaviour. Now I know it was and it is better this way. 73, Miguel, CT1EFT

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Simple. Do a Google search for "Radio Contests this week" or similar. You can then go to the rules for each contest.

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Absolutely it's ok to use FT4 outside of contests. In fact, when the designated frequencies for FT8 are full of stations, I will often run FT4 instead. In many cases the additional sensitivity of FT8

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Hello, As FT4 was developed mostly for contest use, is it ok to use it out of a contest? I also wonder in case there are 2 contests running at the same time how can one know what contest the other are

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How interesting... During this little run on FT4 I had multiple callers who went back to TX1 after sending TX4 or TX5. In fact one op must have walked away from his rig and it kept retrying even after

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Hi again Steve, glad that you found the cause of the issue. You might want to try setting up different configurations for standard FT8 operation, FT8 Hound operation, and standard FT4 operation. By us

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Martin, That was the problem, but it is also a bug. I had been listening for C92RU on 80m FT8 F/H and saw a spot for ZL7DX on 20m FT4. I moved to 20m and set mode to FT4. There was no indication that

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Hi Steve, you haven't inadvertently left WSJT-X configured as a 'Hound' via the Settings > Advanced > Special Operating Activity settings, have you? Although I've never tried it there doesn't seem to

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I can't get FT4 to send the Tx5 73 message in version 2.3.1. It jumps back to Tx1 and won't log the QSO!! 032352 Tx 1949 + ZL7DX K6UM CN85 032400 6 -0.0 1737 + K6UM ZL7DX +17 032407 Tx 1949 + ZL7DX K6

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This seems to be fixed in RC3 - thanks!

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Something seems off with FT4 sequencing in v2.4.0-rc2 Here is a sequence. Copy/paste doesn't seem to work quite right, so sorry if I messed up the alignment. 022515 2 0.2 2394 + AD1C N4UPX EM50 022522

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Not stray characters ... it shows that the decode was done using 'a priori' decoding. This is covered in the user guide here: https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.3.0.h

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Will do. Thanks

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Hi Darin, Completely normal, that is a function of the AP Enable selection under Decode. Look up AP in the manual.

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I've noticed these stray characters lately. It seems random. I'm attaching a screen shot. Anyone seen this? Darin KO4EJD

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Ah, OK thanks. I should have realised the 'iwspr' message was an indictor Andy www.g4jnt.com

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Hi Andy, the final argument is just a hint, it is only used for the small number of messages that are ambiguous and can either be a valid FST4 standard message or a valid standard FST4W message. The a

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I am trying to use the utility FST4SIM to generate symbols to program a FST4W beacon generator for testing at LF. I'm confused over how I tell it to generate The FST4W message (as opposed to just FST4

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I agree that the statuses of this weekend's 'FT4 DX Contest' and also last year's 'FT4/8 DX Contests' in Feb/Mar and April 2020 respectively do seem rather strange... Last April I emailed a log for th

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Use JTDX Al ! I have an FTDX5000 and this never happened to me after 7000 QSO's

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