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K8BL BOB LIDDY <k8bl@...>
IMHO... I consider it rude and inconsiderate to purposely avoid using the proper protocol that was specifically designed to provide the Grid to the station you are calling just to save a few seconds of turnaround between timeslots. The software was designed such that CQ'ing Stations call using TX6 and answering Stations respond with TX1, including their Grid. If you answer someone's CQ by using improper protocol, you are purposely refusing to provide them with info that they may be seeking by being on the radio in the first place. You are refusing to tell them your Grid, which they may be collecting for various Awards, and you are refusing to give them an indication of your location, which would tell them where their signal is reaching. You might as well give them a crude gesture at the same time. In many instances, that forces the CQ Station to look up your info on-line before they'll log it in WSJT and/or their Station Log. That effort takes more time than the 15 seconds saved by NOT providing your Grid when rudely calling by using TX2! After reading all the comments here about using TX2 to call Stations and all the lame/weak excuses for doing so, I'm seriously considering NOT logging QSOs that call using TX2. I'll work them, but I think I won't Log them. That would be just as rude and inconsiderate. GL/73, Bob K8BL (Let the flaming begin. 3...2...1)
On Saturday, May 22, 2021, 04:54:00 PM EDT, Reino Talarmo <reino.talarmo@...> wrote:
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The grid allows WSJT-X to show their beam heading so I can turn the antenna. Also, JTAlert will quickly / automatically provide their name and grid. But the grid displayed in JTAlert (from QRZ.com) isn’t always their correct grid… Bill WB6JJJ
On May 22, 2021, at 6:41 PM, K8BL BOB LIDDY <k8bl@...> wrote:
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K8BL BOB LIDDY <k8bl@...>
Bill, Thanks for pointing those things out. Yes, there are many helpful and often necessary things provided when an answering Station is gracious enough to provide their Grid. That's why it's selfish and inconsiderate to answer merely with TX2 to save themselves a few seconds of turnaround. 73, Bob K8BL
On Saturday, May 22, 2021, 10:17:28 PM EDT, Bill, WB6JJJ <bill@...> wrote:
The grid allows WSJT-X to show their beam heading so I can turn the antenna. Also, JTAlert will quickly / automatically provide their name and grid. But the grid displayed in JTAlert (from QRZ.com) isn’t always their correct grid… Bill WB6JJJ On May 22, 2021, at 6:41 PM, K8BL BOB LIDDY <k8bl@...> wrote:
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OK, time for this discussion to END.
73 -Jim NU0C On Sun, 23 May 2021 02:48:42 +0000 (UTC) "K8BL BOB LIDDY" <k8bl@ameritech.net> wrote: it's selfish andinconsiderate
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K0GU
> The software
> was designed such that CQ'ing Stations call using TX6 and answering Stations
> respond with TX1, including their Grid.The software was also designed so that one can disable Tx1. Come join us on 6m where the extra 15 seconds can mean a DX QSO or not. Virtually no DXer on 6m uses Tx1. For domestic I always send Tx1 but not DX. -- 73, Jay K0GU DN70mq
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