[Elecraft] FT8: "Magic radio"?

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

 > JTAlert was informing me that my QSO partner was/had been sending
 > me a text message informing me that he had my report and I should be
 > sending RRR.  At that point I stopped transmitting and unloaded the
 > software.

Which is why I do not enable the text message capability in JT-Alert
or EME operators do not use Ping Jockey, etc. during a schedule.

That is *not* a failure of the mode - be it CW, JT65, JT9, FT8, PSK31,
RTTY or whatever.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2018-07-04 9:46 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> Actually, I was in the process of learning about JT65 by doing some 
> listening tests when FT8 was added to the suite.  So I took it up almost 
> immediately after it was introduced.  I think I was up to about 80 
> "contacts" when someone on the WSJT-X Yahoo group suggested that JTAlert 
> was a great thing to have.  I wasn't quite sure why, but I installed 
> anyway.
> 
> The setup in my shack has a laptop on a shelf above a larger monitor on 
> the operating desk. Normally, the log is on the laptop and everything 
> else is below using Windows split screen.  I was trying to work a west 
> African station and we were part way through the QSO when it became 
> clear I was getting QRMed each time I (my computer) sent a report.  
> After several sequences I saw a brief flash of a window popping up but 
> straddling both screens so I didn't quite understand what it was.  A few 
> seconds later it happened again but this time I got the gist of what it 
> was. JTAlert was informing me that my QSO partner was/had been sending 
> me a text message informing me that he had my report and I should be 
> sending RRR.  At that point I stopped transmitting and unloaded the 
> software.  Nuff said.
> 
> Wes   N7WS
>