Marshall, yes that should work.
I seem to recall I managed to make a few band changes with QSO partners using
FT8 during the January contest without any issues.
73
Mark S
VE7AFZ
mark@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099
> On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:12 AM, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com> wrote:
>
> 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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