[TVARC] FT8 during ARRL Field Day

[John Ellis]

Rich et.al.

I am not following you but if this is proven
to be a viable way, it needs to get published
nationally so folks can practice with it and be
familiar with it before the contest starts.

Also, because of the incredible amount of activity
that FT-8 would generate, it might be prudent to use
another 3KHz segment, kind of like now defunct
Bouvet dxpedition was going to do.

Message 5, the only "free form" message has a
limit of 13 characters but that doesn't hold true
with the other standard messages. You can have
"WA3ABC WA4XYZ EL98" and that is more than
any 13 characters.

Now, if you have a contact with a station and you
send a free form message in message 5, it doesn't
get logged by WSJT's logging program.

Clearly, if there is a way of doing field day contacts
on FT-8, it might be a lot of fun to do it. It would be
interesting to see how the QRM issue worked out with
1000 "hearable" stations, all competing in a 3KHz
window!

Food for thought,
73,
John, NP2B




On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Rich Erlichman <rich.erlichman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Probably need to run some tests but you can create a macro such as “K4VRC
> 2A NFL” and with WSJTX not in the auto sequence mode after sending the
> first call message you can manually send the FD macro and after receiving
> the other stations message a macro containing a 73.
>
> If they say it is a maximum of 13 characters including spaces, then why is
> the first standard generated message a max of 16 characters? Is the limit
> of 13 only for the custom macros?
> Rich, ND4G
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 24, 2018, at 2:28 PM, John Ellis <john.np2b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> That is what I thought too. Maybe the
> FT-8 team will come up with a temporary
> patch for it for Field Day. After all, it is still
> 3 months away!
>
> 73,
> J
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:14 PM, <k2te at juno.com> wrote:
>
>> Tnx for taking the initiative, John.  After looking at the WSJT-X files,
>> it is not possible to edit the fields except for the "73" message.
>> Therefore, K1JT and company would have to mod it for Field Day use.
>>
>> 73 de Ed
>>
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