[TVARC] FT8 Question

[George]

Last night Karen spent hours calling a 5T5.  He came back to her call a number of times, but never followed up to finish the contact until finally he did.  Karen kept complaining that he seemed to be jumping around in frequency all night.  Could this be a similar issue?
George K2DM


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From: K2PS Pete Stafford
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:10 AM
To: 'villages reflector'
Subject: [TVARC] FT8 Question

I noticed this morning that it appears that my FT8 frequency is changing without my input.  

Here’s a snip from the activity.  I finished with JG1ERW, then called CQ on 2676.  All of a sudden, I’m on 494, calling JA1EOD.  I’m thinking he may be a “fox,” automatically changing my frequency - but I’m not in “hound” mode.  There’s an added complexity in that JA1EOD then immediately starts a QSO with K2PSD, a similar callsign, leaving me calling JA1EOD until I realized something was amiss.  This is the second time this occurred this morning.  I thought somehow I must have changed it in a senior moment, but when it happened again…



Is this an FT8 bug?  I’m still on 2.0.1, BTW.

73, Pete, K2PS

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