[VHFcontesting] WSJT versions for January VHF Contest?

[Marshall-K5QE]

Hi Tom and everyone interested in this thread.....I think that it is 
clear that MSK has won the war.  Few, if any, will be using FSK441 in 
the future.  I would be in favor of moving the "calling frequency" back 
to 50.260MHz(or even lower).  I have the following problem:  The farther 
we get the meteor operations away from 50.125MHz, the worse the antennas 
work.  I would be perfectly happy to move the calling frequency down 
even farther.  We have 6M EME around 50.200MHz, so we need to stay away 
from that, but we could use anything in the 50.220 to 50.240 range.  I 
don't know of anything using those frequencies.  That means that at 
least 7 guys will come on saying that their activities occur in that 
range....HI.

The big problem here is that once one of the "official calling 
frequencies" gets set, it seems almost impossible to move it.  A few old 
"die hards" just refuse to move.

Since we can use PingJockey in the contests now, a station can announce 
its operating frequencies and others can find you.  We do not need to 
call CQ on the "calling frequency" and specify a different QRG where we 
are really operating.  That was/is a clumsy method that was only 
necessary because we could not announce.  Still, if the die-hards insist 
on listening only on the "calling frequency" then we will be back to 
using the CQ CQ de K5QE 265 First method.

I would solicit a serious discussion on this.  Can we all agree to move 
the "calling frequency" to 50.260MHz(or even lower).  My SWR will thank you.

GL in the contest....

73 Marshall K5QE


On 1/2/2017 6:19 PM, Tom Carney wrote:
> Hi Steve
>
> Excellent question.  Can't speak for others, but I plan on using WSJT-X
> during the contest.  WSJT-10 will be on the PC however in case of need
>
> A question for the group.  Is it time to move the MSK144 MS activity down
> to the vicinity of .260 from .280.  Don't really care myself just prefer we
> are all on the same page.
>
> 73,
>
> Tom K6EU
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Steve Kavanagh via VHFcontesting <
> vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll be joining VA3ELE for a multi-op in the upcoming contest and I'm
>> wondering how many versions of WSJT we'll need to have available (and for
>> me to practice on!).  It looks like the latest WSJT-X (1.7.0) now covers
>> anything we might need for EME (though the propagation forecast isn't
>> promising) or weak signal JT65, and MSK144 for meteor scatter.  But not
>> FSK441...will anyone be still using FSK441 in the contest?
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve VE3SMA
>>