Many stations observed on 6M were not in contest mode.
Sometimes (but not always) had to switch to standard mode to complete.
However, I edited my Macro to just send CQ WZ1V in contest mode,
instead of CQ Test - hope that didn't confuse things more.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay RM <w9rm@calmesapartners.com>
To: nmvhf@groups.io, "vhfcontesting@contesting.com"
<VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:35:45 -0600
Subject: [VHFcontesting] FT8 contest mode incompatibly
> Anyone seriously operating this weekends contest and using FT8 probably had
> this happen.
>
> You're cruising .313 looking for those new mults or whatever, you see
> someone CQing WITHOUT the word TEST in the CQ message and you instinctively
> know they're not in contest mode. No worries, you think. The WSJTX
> boffins have tuned the program to compensate for the difference in exchange
> and you know autosequence will seamlessly pull you through. You call and,
> sure enough, back comes the 'funny little number' exchange. You reply with
> a NA contest mode exchange (because you're contesting, right ?) and....
> back comes a repeat - no autosequence. What ?? OK, maybe I got QRMed.
> Try again, and same thing. You can't progress to the finish.
>
> What you do now is left to the individual. What I did was terminate the Q
> and moved on. You might have fiddled with the setup to switch out of
> contest mode. Whatever... the Q was either made or not.
>
> What this did, other then temporarily piss me off and cause name calling
> that nobody heard but me and the shack spiders, was confused me. HOW could
> this happen....the boffins....they fixed this. Was the other guy manually
> interfering with autosequence ? Was the other guy that insistent on his
> funny number ? I started ignoring those obviously not in contest mode.
>
> This morning, after reading a soapbox comment on 3830, it finally hit
> me.... (I'm pretty focused on operating during the 'test). It's.....The
> Clones !! Those knock-offs of WSJT - JTDX, MHSV ! THEY don't have contest
> mode ! They can't autosequence past TX2. So, what to do about this
> incompatibly ? It's pretty obvious the clones aren't going to add CM if
> they haven't already and there are those contest haters that wouldn't use
> it anyway, but still insist on trying to WORK contesters.
>
> I'm thinking maybe the solution is to add some kind of 'quick button'
> behavior to WSJTX that drops the program out of contest mode for just one Q
> and resets back into CM after the 73 (or something). Does anyone have
> another idea ? If a number of high level contesters presented such a
> request maybe the WSJT powers would respond. Or, maybe you think it's a
> non-issue....or maybe a quick work around all ready exists that doesn't
> require a guy to drop in and change his setup and I'm just clueless ?
>
> -W9RM
>
>
>
> Keith Morehouse
> via MotoG
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