[CQ-Contest] FT4 - Robotic Contesting

[jpescatore at aol.com]

I've been participating in the FT4 testing, and I'll be doing a talk at Dayton on the Future of FT8 (and FT4) in Contesting at the Digital Contest Forum on Friday May 17th at 1015 at Dayton/Xenia.  I'll be discussing the issues of automation and multiplexing that FT8/FT4 bring to contesting. 
I've talked with ARRL and CQ contest sponsors about these issues, they both handle them a bit differently. The major issues about automation are really in the WSJT-X software, not in the FT8 or FT4 protocols themselves. 
73 John K3TN