A lot of folks do use that area for sending QSY info, the problem is unlike
when you are in QSO with someone, they don't show up as red on the other
person's screen and they are easily missed. This is a good idea and
hopefully folks will start doing this more.
Terry Price - W8ZN
Directive Systems and Engineering
703-754-3876
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:43 PM Marshall Pochay <wd9exd@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello All, I went into ft8 today and played around with the 1 free
> message available on the 2nd page of wsjtx, It looks like we have 13
> characters available to us there, So this is what I came up with, Sending
> (qsya150wd9exd) QSY (obvious) use arrl vhf modes A =50 B=144 C=222 D=432
> E =1296 etc. so a150 is 50.150 b174 is 144174 c100 is 222100 d174 is
> 432174 d200 432200, Now my call being large eats up letters, With short
> calls you can mix it up a little, Also answers rrrqsynow or rrqsywd9exd.
> WB8LYJ/R would have to drop the r but I dont think thats a big deal. This
> would probably only work for contesters, This would have to be done after
> the initial qso was completed so wsjtx could log the 1st qso and it
> wouldnt screw that qso up, Or you could call me again after we worked and I
> would let the computer answer you again and at that time you could change
> the message to show what frequency you are looking for, So dont be so quick
> to hit me with a dupe msg, Now I think we can do thi
> s with the one free text message available, I still think maybe we could
> get the wsjt people to give us another page, I got greedy asking to change
> page 2 ,If they could ad a 4th page with places for 6 or so messages we
> could preload a couple and modify a few as we needed them. This is a
> THOUGHT, Please test it out, Im not big on the free msgs yet but I see a
> few out there that are pretty fast, If it looks doable we would have to get
> the word out, TNX 73 Marshall WD9EXD
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