Re: [wsjt-devel] Message Bit to Request Other Station to QSY to your Frequency

[Ray R. <ra...@gm...>]

Yeah, that would be a really useful addition if it's in fact feasible.

I have a "QRM UR FREQ" free-form message that I use in these
situations. Sometimes people get it, sometimes not.

-- Ray WQ5L


On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:24 AM Saku <oh...@sr...> wrote:
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> Yes!
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> I have suggested this kind of solution years ago.
> Now I have tried free message "QSY MY QRG" but it spends more periods and seldom results to anything.
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> Easier solution for us, the users, would be to spread 2kHz up or down with vfo dial. That way a part of "official" dial traffic can still be seen.But also this seems to be too difficult in practice.
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> Good "bad" example is 6m. All stations use 50.313 and just few are brave enough to call CQ with 50.323 dial.
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> One good thing also to mention from 6m: It seems that with EU-AS qsos most of the EU stations use 1st/even period for calling and AS stations use 2nd/odd period. It makes working a little bit easier than in HF bands.
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> --
> Saku
> OH1KH
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> Tim Goeppinger via wsjt-devel kirjoitti 8.7.2021 klo 6.07:
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> There are so many times on FT8 or FT4 that the station you are in QSO with is buried in QRM by a signal they probably don't even know is on their audio frequency.
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> On future releases of FT4 or FT8, if there is ever a spare bit in the message formats, I propose adding a "please QSY to my tx audio frequency" bit.   There would be a "Pse QSY: button on the user interface that would be off by default.
> There would be an indicator to the other op that a QSY is requested, and it is up to them whether or not to hit the up arrow button to sync TX frequencies.
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> There have been several times on 6 meters recently where this could have been helpful, and would have cut down on all of the repeats back and forth.
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> Thanks for your consideration & 73,
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> Tim N6GP