[VHFcontesting] WSJT versions for January VHF Contest?

[Keith Morehouse]

>
>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.
>

Yeah, the smaller the spread between 'daytime' operation and MS the better,
although .260, .270, .280 all seem to work with only minor degradation in
performance here.

I think the concept of a calling frequency is kinda worthless during
contests, although it does give us all somewhere to listen when we run out
of guys on PJ and want to give the amplifiers a break from CQing.  We all
happily know where everyone is pointing and who's on what frequency through
the Internet (at least in ARRL contests - are you listening CQ ?)  Outside
the contest, it's important since nobody seems to turn the dial anymore and
WSJT-X kinda urges everyone to stay on the same frequencies, for better or
worse.  Yeah-Yeah, I know "it's designed to share a frequency between
users", but tell that to the guy who's POed because someone is full copy
the whole sequence, every sequence, on 6M ionoscatter and transmitting on
the "other" sequence.  Sort of tosses the idea of sharing right out the
window.

It does appear FSK441 is dead, unfortunately.  Moving back to .260 or
anywhere else is fine with me, as long as everyone knows it ahead of time.

Did the so-called MSK144 calling frequency on 2M move away from.140 ?
Probably time to put that back also, if it did.

Jay W9RM
DM58 CO


Keith J Morehouse
Managing Partner
Calmesa Partners G.P.
Olathe, CO

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe at k5qe.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
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