Topband: FT8.

[Gary Smith]

I have started a series of CQ and gotten 
bites but they do not complete. To verify 
this, I just now called CQ with FT8 and I 
got a reply from SM7OYP but my software 
did not reply. It will not reply until I 
tell it to do so.

http://doctorgary.net/wsjt-x-cq.jpg

So I clicked on his reply to me to 
acknowledge him and start my response. It 
was only then that the QSO was 
acknowledged and completed.

http://doctorgary.net/wsjt-x-cq-logged.jpg

FT8 is not an automatic QSO machine.

Like FT8 or dislike it, it's really not 
the end of Ham Radio.

Not that my opinion matters, but I'd like 
to see FT8 be classified separately like 
CW RTTY & SSB when it comes to awards. I'm 
fine with it being part of "Mixed". I 
think it would be a pure new challenge, 
and it would be fun for someone like me 
who has very few ATNO left to start over 
in the chase. & FWIW, it wouldn't over-run 
the CW/SSB frequencies to do it, they'd be 
fine.

73,

Gary
KA1J

> You can start a CQ and the program will work someone if they call with
> no user intervention but then it stops.
> 
> 
> On 10/25/2017 9:59 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
> > I used RC2 and now, RC3 and there's no way
> > in this software to make FT8 QSO's
> > automatically. I don't get why so many
> > people think it is a QSO machine that you
> > let it go and it finds and makes QSO's for
> > you. That's just not true, it does not do
> > that.
> >
> > 73,
> > Gary, KA1J
> >
> >> On 10/25/2017 6:57 PM, DXer wrote:
> >>> Try leaving FT8 unattended, and see how many QSOs it makes by
> >>> itself?
> >>>
> >>> 73 de Vince, VA3VF
> >>> _________________
> >> I've unsubscribed but the WSJT-X Yahoo group can be searched for a
> >> thread where a guy said he went off to the kitchen and came back to
> >> find he'd "worked" someone.  He said also that because he wasn't
> >> in the shack, he wasn't going to QSL.  I asked, why not, the other
> >> guy didn't know you were in the kitchen?
> >>
> >> So, yes, RC1 will make automatic QSOs.  And if you don't complete,
> >> you can always use text messaging via JTAlert.
> >>
> >> N7WS
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