[ILQSO] FT8 questions

[Danny Pease]

Those were pretty much my thoughts as well Don. Even if we can make the free
text message work, getting everyone on the same page on how to use it would
take a lot of time and training. I remember the confusion the first VHF
contest with FT8 and in that case, it was simply sending a grid locator
instead of the usual S/N reports.

IF it can be done, it will take time to implement it, but one thing is sure,
if we never start, it will never happen.

Danny


-----Original Message-----
From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Don Pitchford via ILQSO
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 7:50 PM
To: ilqso at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] FT8 questions

 Danny, and others,It is possible to set the counties in the free text
screens, and manually send them in order. It works. When FT-8 first came
about I tried some free-text stuff with another ham. It's pretty painful.
More importantly, everyone in the contest would need to be doing it the
same, or it will lead to a bunch of broken contacts. That's my biggest
complaint about FT-8; most hams just use it as-is and don't create ways to
make it more useful. I'll boot up the computer tonight and see if I can come
up with a reasonable suggestion for formatting the free text screens that
might make it usable for ILQP.Don, W9EBK
    On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 01:41:05 PM CDT, Danny Pease
<dpease at adams.net> wrote:  
 
 There have been a few questions asked about using FT8 for the ILQSO Party.
I
know it is not friendly to non-standard reports but has someone taken the
time to see if it is possible to make FT8 work for the possibly lengthy
multi-county exchanges?

Danny NG9R

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