[SADXA] T31EU on 10.136 Mhz FT8

[Jim Wysocki]

Dennis, that's a good idea, especially since there are two variations of 
the FT8 source code in use.  There's WSJT-X, of course, and there's also 
a program called MSHV.  This second version allows a non-Fox and Hound 
station to present at least two separate transmissions on the same band 
which mimic WSJT's F&H mode, except that they apparently don't pull the 
hound's transmitter over close to them.  This makes for a lot of 
confusion if the people calling don't know what FT8 methodology to use.  
The software developers need to develop a set of uniform standards and 
stick with them.

The XX9D group has now disassembled their stations and left.  Let's hope 
the next Macao operation chooses a location with a much lower noise 
floor.  In my last attempts on 80 and 40m their signals were so loud 
that they could have been operating out in my driveway.  Yet they 
couldn't hear me nor any of the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of other callers.

I suppose I should be happy with the QSO's I've gotten, even though I'm 
not.  Shakespeare probably had it about right.  "A man's reach should 
exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

73, Jim  W9FI

On 2/27/2019 7:05 PM, D Dismachek via SADXA wrote:
> I see that the Central Kiribati station is once again on FT8 30m. I worked them here as normal FT8 not F&H. I have chased after XX9D, but they are even more elusive then a fox and hound. I have a list of F&H suggested frequencies that have been used in the recent past and I wish that they could follow these, 3.567, 7.056, 10.131,14.090, 18.095, 21.091 and 28.091 or give us a list of those freq's they wish to use. I have also asked the WSJT-X people to provide a method to inform use when a station is operating F&H so we don't have to guess. A little asterisk (*) or something in their CQ would go a long way to informing us of F&H operation!
> ...Dennis / N6ITY
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