Re: [wsjt-devel] Q65 Pileup Feature Request

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

Hi Reino,

MNI TNX for the background. No, we need the grid for the contact 
exchange. So the message would have to be TX2 PLUS some other indicator 
such as a hyphen (-) between the calls and the grid. I was hoping this 
could be done instead of the R, but I understand that apparently there 
is not enough available bits to send - instead of R 🙁  It is only 
valuable to know if a trace was copied (yellow spike received) during 
the immediately preceding sequence...

VY 73, Lance

On 19 Aug 2025 21:07, Reino Talarmo wrote:
> Lance Collister, W7GJ, Tuesday, August 19, 2025 8:25 AM wrote
>> I thought
>> that there might be room for this information the way the R
>> report is inserted in TX3. I wonder if the program could
>> automatically send a message in place of TX2, but similar to
>> TX2 except with some other character (perhaps just a dash
>> instead of a space) to indicate that the station copied a
>> yellow spike during the receive cycle immediately
>> preceding their transmit cycle.
> Hello Lance and Charlie,
>
> Unfortunately, that message or all standard messages support the 'R' using a single bit and there is no easy way to add another bit for that message. On the other hand, the field that conveys the report, grid or any of 'RRR', 'RR73', '73' and 'space' have available some unused bit combinations.
> If the grid is important for the QSO one possibility is to allocate a value that is presented to the user as '*' or any text. That new message could indicate that the station has *not* received the yellow spike in the immediately preceding slot. Or we could have even more values:
> 'BLIND ONLY', 'THREE OR MORE CYCLES AGO', TWO CYCLES AGO' and 'ONE CYCLE AGO' or something similar. The previous cycle would be indicated by the use of the grid i.e. normal Tx2.
>
> That method may not be best. if you need the grid value in the list for any transmission or reception purposes. In the case EME it may not be so important as it will be there once you want to contact that station.
>
> Whatever it is a program update, I leave it to the designers.
>
> 73, Reino OH3mA
>
>
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