[ILQSO] FT8 questions

[Black Michael]

Not going to work well at all.  Far too limited with only 13 chars available.
You can test messages yourself like this one that shows a 1x4 can't even send CQ with one county
 C:\WSJT\wsjtx\bin>ft8code "CQ W9MDB ADAM"    Message                               Decoded                             Err i3.n3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CQ W9MDB ADAM                         CQ W9MDB                              *  4.  Nonstandard calls
A 1x3 can at least CQ with county though....
C:\WSJT\wsjtx\bin>ft8code "CQ NG9R ADAM"    Message                               Decoded                             Err i3.n3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CQ NG9R ADAM                          CQ NG9R ADAM                             0.0 Free text
But not in reply to anybody else if even another 1x4
C:\WSJT\wsjtx\bin>ft8code "N9JF NG9R ADAM"    Message                               Decoded                             Err i3.n3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. N9JF NG9R ADAM                        <...>                                 *  4.  Nonstandard calls
Could do it this way but only with one county

C:\WSJT\wsjtx\bin>ft8code "DE NG9R ADAM"    Message                               Decoded                             Err i3.n3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. DE NG9R ADAM                          DE NG9R ADAM                             0.0 Free text



 

    On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 08:02:41 PM CDT, Don Pitchford via ILQSO <ilqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote:  
 
  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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