[VHFcontesting] FT8 and the ARRL June VHF Contest

[Mark Spencer]

Re QSY'ng...

On Sunday I stated sending "AFZ/R QSY.125" when I switched from FT8 to analog.   To keep things legal I subsequently sent my full call.

I seemed like a good idea at the time (:

73


Mark S
VE7AFZ

mark at alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099

> On Jun 13, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Keith Morehouse <w9rm at calmesapartners.com> wrote:
> 
> I think the problem with the whole "QSY 2" thing on FT8 is the other guy
> (probably not an experienced contest op) doesn't know if you mean QSY to 2
> using FT8 on some frequency he's not savvy to, or QSY 2 on the calling freq
> with SSB.  You would think MOST people would understand that 95% of the
> operation on bands above 6M is on the calling freq, but maybe not.
> 
> To tell you the truth, if I was on 50.313 running FT8 and was asked by
> someone on FT8 to QSY to another band, I'm not sure I would be confident we
> would get hooked up again.  I think I would probably respond "FREQ?" or
> some-such unless I absolutely knew where the guy was going by pre-arranged
> agreement or by the fact we had done it before.
> 
> The BEST scenario would be for the "local guy on FT8" with other bands to
> check 144.200 or 432.100 occasionally and not get so damn fixated on his
> WSJT screen.  He has other bands, why not look at them occasionally ?
> 
> -W9RM
> 
> Keith J Morehouse
> Managing Partner
> Calmesa Partners G.P.
> Olathe, CO
> 
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:23 AM, k2drh at frontiernet.net <
> k2drh at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>   - There are ways to get stations to QSY to 2M inthe 13 character TX5
>> free message but it’s hard and takes up a lot of time.  I tried a few
>> different ones:
>>      - Just sending QSY 2M? or even WB#xxx QSY 2M(exactly 13 – spaces
>> count) resulted in fail open most of the time or at best afree message back
>> that said “Where?” or “Freq?” and took a lot of time.  Am I wrong or do we
>> have a CALL frequency on2M where you can CALL another station? Seemed
>> obvious to me but …
>>      - Sending QSY 144xxx was also inefficient andwasted time while it
>> was processed (who, me?). I also kept hoping that maybe multiplelocals
>> would see it and try to make a few more Qs too, but I guess it never
>> occurredto them to try.
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