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Re: [VHFcontesting] FT impacting ability to run bands?

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Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] FT impacting ability to run bands?
From: Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:12:39 +0000
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I am certainly no expert on WSJT-X.  However, the software already has what they call TX Macros.  You can pre-define macros like "QSY 144.174" or whatever you want.  Then just select that macro and send it via TX5.  I have one that sends "UR Grid?" due to the folks that just insist on sending a funny little number rather than their grid.  Grids are required in contests and before FT8 came along they were the standard signal report in VHF.....as opposed to 579 or 59.

73 Marshall K5QE

On 3/18/2020 2:37 PM, Drew Arnett wrote:
If FT is impacting the ability to run bands, because it is a fixed
message format, why not ask the dev team to add a few bits to the
fixed format to regain that ability?


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