[VHFcontesting] FT8 contesting

[Terry - W8ZN]

For some time now, when Andy and I are out in the K8GP rover, I just 
send QSY UP or QSY DN. I'm not a very good cw op and sending numbers 
takes way too long. Hopefully everyone knows that if you just worked 
someone on 2304.110 and are told to QSY up they go to 3456.110 and so 
forth all the way up. I would think the same scheme could work on 
FT8....... Better yet, use cw - it's WAY faster :-) !!!

Terry Price, W8ZN

Directive Systems and Engineering 703-754-3876

On 2018-02-01 9:52 pm, Steve Kavanagh via VHFcontesting wrote:
> Herb
> 
> I wonder if editing TX5 (or preparing a canned message instead of) the
> 73 message (TX5 or TX6) would work for QSYing.  It might take 2
> message to send the frequency in full for the higher microwave bands
> but I think "QSY 10G 110" is short enough.  Most likely you would be
> starting with FT8 on 6 or 2 metres and switching to something else by
> the time you got to 222 or 432, so dealing with the long frequencies
> might not come up (unless you switched to JT65).
> 
> To which one could respond with another canned TX5 message of "RR
> QSY".  You'd need nimble fingers to select the messages quickly
> enough, but it might work with practice.  Mind you, to include the
> proposed QSO mode might exceed the number of available characters.
> 
> Might be worth some experiments.
> 
> 73,
> Steve VE3SMA
> 
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