[TVARC] FT8 Question

[K2PS Pete Stafford]

If he was set up as a Fox, he could have multiple signals, but all would be below 500.  Is that what she saw?  Either that or he didn’t have Hold Tx Freq checked.  That would cause the 5T5 to move to the frequency of whomever he called.

 

73, Pete, K2PS

 

From: George [mailto:k2dm at comcast.net] 
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:50 AM
To: K2PS Pete Stafford; 'villages reflector'
Subject: RE: [TVARC] FT8 Question

 

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 <mailto:psk2ps at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:10 AM
To: 'villages reflector' <mailto:tvarc at mailman.qth.net> 
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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