[ILQSO] FT8 questions

[Chuck Schneebeli]

I use FT8, and its a bad idea for this contest. Far too slow, and not enough characters even if you tried to use the free message. Hopefully our muti county stations don’t waste their time on this mode....

73 Chuck KI9A 

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> On Oct 16, 2019, at 10:29 PM, Black Michael via ILQSO <ilqso at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> C:\WSJT\wsjtx\bin>ft8code "DE NG9R ADAM"    Message                               Decoded                             Err i3.n3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. DE NG9R ADAM                          DE NG9R ADAM                             0.0 Free text
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>    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:  
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> 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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