[Elecraft] FT8: "Magic radio"?

[Wes Stewart]

No, it's not a failure of the mode, but a question of personal ethics.  Other 
ops have theirs, I have mine.

On 7/4/2018 7:13 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> > 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
>>
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