[wsjt-devel] Q65 Pileup Feature Request

[Lance C. W. <w7...@bi...>]

This request is for a feature that would (I think) be primarily of use 
during pileup situations during DXpeditions. So Q65 PILEUP makes it the 
logical place for it. As I have been suggesting for years, it would be 
EXTREMELY HELPFUL and make DXpedition operations so much more 
productive, if there could be an indicator when a station is receiving 
during the last receive sequence. When multiple stations are calling at 
the same time (especially during common moonset windows), a lot of time 
can be wasted by cycling through the list of all the callers and trying 
to reply to each one to see if there happens to be any reciprocal 
propagation with any of them. By the time one tries responding to 10 or 
12 callers, plus delays in running out to aim the antenna, considerable 
valuable common moon time has been used up :-(  I don't profess to have 
any idea how the system works, but here are my suggestions from a 
DXpeditioner's point of view:

1. In Q65 PILEUP, apparently there is some way to transmit "R" with the 
callsigns and grid TX3) and for that information to be received by the 
other station.

2. If a station could optionally turn on the feature, perhaps they could 
send an * (or some other symbol or letter or number) when they receive a 
yellow spike (perhaps with some adjustable threshold above the 
background noise) during their previous reception period.

3. The DXpedition station could receive the new TX3 message with the * 
(or whatever instead of the R), and know that he could reply with a 
standard TX3 message and have it received by that caller. Of course, 
reception of that * message should not engage the AUTO SEQUENCE.  If the 
caller stops receiving a yellow spike, the program would go back to 
automatically sending TX2.

The HUGE advantage would be that the DXpedition station would be able to 
identify stations that have the capability for a reciprocal contact! 
Today, for example, I spent a lot time replying to a number of different 
stations who never received any decodes from me at all when I tried to 
reply to them :-(

MNI TNX for your kind consideration!  VY 73, Lance  at H40GJ

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