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[VHFcontesting] Moving people on FT8

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Subject: [VHFcontesting] Moving people on FT8
From: Marshall Pochay <wd9exd@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 20:43:00 -0600 (CST)
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Hello All, I went into ft8 today and played around with the 1 free message  
available on the 2nd page of  wsjtx, It looks like we have 13 characters 
available to us there, So this is what I came up with, Sending (qsya150wd9exd) 
QSY (obvious) use arrl vhf modes A =50 B=144  C=222 D=432  E =1296 etc. so a150 
is 50.150  b174 is 144174 c100 is 222100 d174 is 432174 d200 432200, Now my 
call being large eats up letters, With short calls you can mix it up a little, 
Also answers rrrqsynow or rrqsywd9exd. WB8LYJ/R would have to drop the r but I 
dont think thats a big deal. This would probably only work for contesters, This 
would have to be done  after the initial  qso was completed so wsjtx could log 
the 1st qso and it wouldnt screw that qso up, Or you could call me again after 
we worked and I would let the computer answer you again and at that time you 
could change the message to show what frequency you are looking for, So dont be 
so quick to hit me with a dupe msg, Now I think we can do thi
 s with the one  free text message available, I still think maybe we could get 
the wsjt people to give us another page, I got greedy asking to change page 2 
,If they could ad a 4th page with places for 6 or so messages we could preload 
a couple and modify a few as we needed them. This is a THOUGHT, Please test it 
out, Im not big on the free msgs yet but I see a few out there that are pretty 
fast, If it looks doable we would have to get the word out, TNX 73  Marshall 
WD9EXD 
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