[SADXA] 3C2RRR on 40m FT8 (using MSHV software)

[Wes]

 From https://dxnews.com/3d2rrr/


    3D2RRR Rotuma Island News 27 May 2022

    Bula folks

    After some 50 hours the team reached 20k qsos already.

    High wind and rain prevent making antennas for 80 and 160m.

    Propagation: 10-12 meters - phenomenal, 15m - super, 20-17m - worse than above.

    20m FT8 issue with laptop charger making noise and prevented hearing
    anything on 20m for some longer time but finally resolved. Changed the
    charger no more problems there.

    We hope to start 40m and 6m today. 80 and 160 possibly tomorrow weather
    permitted.

    We work FT8 using wsjtx ver.2.5 and always send RR73.

    Planning to be active till June 5 depending on weather forecast for return
    voyage to Fiji.

Wes  N7WS



On 5/28/2022 8:31 AM, Jim Wysocki wrote:
> They're on 7.074 Mhz  FT8 and running three simultaneous transmit threads.  I 
> couldn't complete the QSO using F&H mode so I tried again using simplex WSJT-X 
> on my side.  Then the exchange was completed (i.e, they finished with a "W9FI 
> RR73" message) without further problems.  They're +10 at the moment.
>
> It looks like they're using MSHV software on their side.  This software allows 
> them to have several simplex contacts at the same time, but it's very 
> confusing to those who expect them to be using standard FT8.  This choice of 
> software is slowing down their throughput rate, but if you know what they're 
> doing you can get through without a lot of difficulty.
>
> GL, Jim  W9FI