[WriteLog] DigiRite CQ Message?

[Jim Johnson]

Hey Thanks Ed, Don and Randy!

Yeah I was a bit off on my contest CQ but the software was sending the correct configuration.   

I will adjust the F11 and check the focus box when needed.  

Thanks for the great speedy help.  

Jim/KC4HW


----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net>
Reply-To: <k5zd at charter.net>
To: 'Jim Johnson' <jim at kc4hw.com>, <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: 9/12/2019 9:21:48 AM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] DigiRite CQ Message?
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I asked Wayne this same question earlier this week. His reply:

>From the ReadMe...way down at the bottom under "Other Details"

DigiRite discovers if you want your sent CQ message to be directed by
inspecting the bottom entry in WriteLog's RTTY messages setup dialog. It
expects to see the letters CQ followed by a word-four letters maximum per
the FT8 message packing rules-that is your directed CQ. Note that if you are
operating with an FT8 "non standard call" (i.e., your CALL can't be fit into
its 28bit callsign encoding) then only bare CQs are supported and DigiRite
ignores that bottom CQ entry in WriteLog.

73

Randy K5ZD


> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog <writelog-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Jim Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 7:37 AM
> To: writelog at contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] DigiRite CQ Message?
> 
> Been using DigiRite with the General DX record keeping--all seems to be
> OK.
> 
> After WW DIGI, while using the General DX module, my default CQ message
> was "CQ DX KC4HW EM71".
> 
> Have been playing with the RTTY setup in anticipation of CQ WW RTTY later
> this month.  Added/imported messages from a past CQ WW RTTY entry.  Which
> changed my
> F01 Message to TEST KC4HW CQ.
> 
> So I go to do a little GP operating and perhaps DXing on FT8 (FT4 was
> dead) last night and found that the default CQ message had changed to "CQ
> KC4HW EM71".
> 
> Actually I prefer the CQ DX message in this type operating.  I did see in
> DigiRite Readme file that DigiRite uses the F01 message to formulate the
> CQ message for whatever contest module is selected (maybe I understand
> this correctly).  Anyway I change my F01 Message to read CQ DX KC4HW CQ,
> but this did not appear to have the desired effect.
> 
> So how can I change the message for FT8/FT4 to utilize "CQ DX" during
> general operating?
> 
> Jim/KC4HW
> 
> PS:  I actually looked back through a few months of Writelog email that I
> have and did not see anything that might answer this question.  Further I
> found the Writelog email reflection and the archive goes way back, but
> unfortunately it does not have the ARCHIVE SEARCH enabled.  Mailman does
> provide for this feature in it setup screen, so I for one would like to
> lobby that this feature
> be enabled in the future.  Thanks!
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