Topband: 160

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

Disclaimer here …..  I've never used FT-X … I still have a copy of  
DIGIPAN on a laptop somewhere that I used on PSK-31 a decade or so ago.

 From this discussion, it "appears" that FT is a "one-button push" mode.

My question to the group :

If you are in your local ( not remote ) ham shack watching this process, and
IF the original software writer had intended for his software to
make THREE QSOs before the process stops..... does NOT pressing the  
button a second or third time somehow invalidate the last two QSOs ?

If the software would somehow alert the operator to press the button again
with a beep or screen flash at the end of a completed QSO,
  would that be acceptable ?

It all seems so impersonal to me … . .  regardless of the number of presses.


Don W4DNR





Quoting Cecil <chacuff at cableone.net>:

> You manually start a CQ sequence that can run unanswered for 15  
> minutes...but if answered and “answer first” is selected an auto  
> sequence of trading signal reports ensues until the QSO is  
> successfully completed or fails at which time the process stops  
> until the operator starts the process again. It won’t start again on  
> its own unless the operator starts it.
>
> If it functions any differently it’s either been modified or is  
> being manipulated by a macro...neither of which was part of the  
> software writers intent or design...period!