[TVARC] FT8 Question

[Dennis McKinney]

I'm having it happen now. ND0TS doesnt finish and runs off to another
station, but he finishes with them. Then he gives me a signal report but
I'm not txing any longer...

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 07:49 George <k2dm at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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?
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> George K2DM
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> *From: *K2PS Pete Stafford <psk2ps at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, August 3, 2019 7:10 AM
> *To: *'villages reflector' <tvarc at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *[TVARC] FT8 Question
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> I noticed this morning that it appears that my FT8 frequency is changing
> without my input.
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> 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…
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> Is this an FT8 bug?  I’m still on 2.0.1, BTW.
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> 73, Pete, K2PS
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