[ADXA] WSJTx FOX Hound Question....

[rcurt at centurytel.net]

In the pursuit of knowledge, I set my RX up as FOX with the callsign 3y0K. Of course I'm not receiving the same signals as they are, and not being able to hear them on 17 I don't know who they are sending rr73 to. . Most everyone that I received that did not jump to their frequency kept sending the R signal report over and over, indicating to me they weren't hearing a rr73. Those that were shifting to the 3Y0K frequency seemed to not need to resend the signal.


It is good to know that if you can get in the clear, or have a good enough TX signal to beat the pileup, that regular ft8 mode is OK. 


In an aside to this, some may not know that if you have your settings right in F/H mode, if you set your TX and RX frequency on the DX frequency and transmit, WSJTX will auto assign you a TX slot up the band.  


In this case I mainly was concerned about in hound mode and selecting the 3y0k station, as they transmitted, it did not show in the RX window, but did show my transmits to them. 


More than likely my whole dilemma is caused by a "loose nut" on the radio. 


Thanks for the help.


Randy/W5ZJ


On Tue, 3 Mar, 2026 at 10:55 AM, Joel Harrison <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:
 

To: rcurt at centurytel.net
Cc: adxa at mailman.qth.net
Randy,

In situations like this I do not activate F/H.

Last night I wrked 3Y0K on 40 meters just using standard FT8 without my xmit shifting. I received an RR73 fine.

I did see several folks that were called, they sent an R-x, but I never saw 3Y send an RR73 but many sequences later I did, but that was all I saw come across my screen and not the calling station apparently going through the full call sequence again..

Others here on our ADXA channel are much more versed than me on the internal specifics of these FT8 spinoff modes and I’m sure they will chime in.

GL in the hunt.

73 Joel W5ZN

> On Mar 3, 2026, at 11:38 AM, Randell Curtis, W5ZJ via ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net<mailto:adxa at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've used fox hound quite a bit before most of the DX started using MSHV.  I have an issue with decodes not showing up in the RX Frequency window when I have selected fox hound mode. All is decoding fine in the band activity window.  I don't remember this being normal. I rolled back the version to 2.7 last night and it did the same thing. 
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?  
> 
> Is anyone working 3Y0K without the transmit frequency jumping to theirs after they answer? 
> 
> By what I'm seeing on FB groups, and last night  on 40, many are not getting an RR73.
> 
> I may only get one shot at this, and I want to try my best to make sure I don't have a software/setting issue if it happens. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Randy/W5ZJ
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