[OKDXA] FT8 Ignorance...

[Richard Ruhl W5GLD]

Kim, I don’t believe you are doing anything wrong. They are calling him using Tx2 with their received signal db. Tx2 speeds up the contact sequence so Dx stations can work more stations.
I have not seen FT8WW today yet; waiting to see if conditions improve tonight.
Happy New Year and the best to you and your family in 2023.
73’s, Richard.

Richard Ruhl W5GLD
20048 N 2840 Rd
Kingfisher, Oklahoma 73750
405-368-0191


> On Dec 29, 2022, at 2:05 PM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm puzzling over what I'm seeing in my WSJT-X windows.
> 
> I underrated the two window's function: the left window shows everything decoded in the receive passband, while the right window shows what's decoded on my specific rx frequency. The rx frequency must have it's own (narrow) passband (1 Hz? 0.1 Hz? 0.001 Hz?), but I'll leave that for now.
> 
> What puzzles me is how to interpret that the following in my left window:
> 
> 193245 -14 0.2 1839 ~ FT8WW N2CEP -15
> 193315 -10 0.2 1839 ~ FT8WW N2CEP -15
> 193415 -14 0.2 1839 ~ FT8WW N2CEP -15
> 
> 193445 -16 0.2 1839 ~ FT8WW N2CEP -15
> 
> 193615 -14 0.2 1839 ~ FT8WW N2CEP -15
> 
> 194345 -15 -0.0 1891 ~ FT8WW N4FAC +14
> 
> 194415 -19 -0.0 1892 ~ FT8WW N4FAC +14
> 
> 194515 -19 -0.0 1892 ~ FT8WW N4FAC +14
> 
> 
> I understand the columns (in order) as UTC time SNR (dB), time-offset-from-expected, frequency (Hz). Now comes my confusion in the "Message" column: is N2CEP calling FT8WW, or is FT8WW responding to N2CEP? What's the number (-15)? I never see any of the responses from any station RR73, etc. In one case (line not shown), the Message consists  of HR5/F2JD <KG4USN> 73. That sort of makes sense, but again, I've never seeen anything I can put together as an entire QSO anywhere, ever.
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Kim N5OP
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