SteveShannon

By misquoting @H8SPVMT you very obviously define yourself.

As @OffRoaderX said, sometimes it works that way. Let’s say you’re hiding behind a rock. Someone 100 feet away is pointing an elevated spotlight towards your rock. At that range the beam spreads out larger than the rock and you can see it reflecting off your surroundings. But you shine a flashlight directly at the rock in the direction of the spotlight and they don’t see you at all. It’s very common for radio communications to propagate asymmetrically.

We got a QSO!

Do you do that under Call Roster, add the call sign as a “watcher” and then set an alert for wanted call signs?

Oh, I understand. But out of all the radios I have only one doesn’t create a virtual serial port. But I never have to do anything with IRQ. Sometimes I have to set baud rate. Usually, I have to set the port so the software knows, but not always.

Unfortunately, most of the computer software creates virtual serial ports and require the user to determine which ports are being used.

15 started fading for me so I went to 20 m.

Okay, everything looks good now. FT8 on 15m I’m AI7KS

It won’t be this morning. I’ll have to retune. Mother Nature played a little April Fool’s Day trick on us. What’s your call sign?

HF, often 15 or 20 meters. I have to add your call sign also!

This! Use logging software that makes use of CAT to automatically log everything other than the call sign. I use Ham Radio Deluxe Logbook. All I have to enter is the call sign and click log this contact. But FT8 is even easier Also, depending on the software I can set alarms for call signs, states, counties, grid squares, countries, continents, etc that I want to watch for. Today I’m going to create my own contest: “Worked mygmrs members!” using these ham call signs for folks who are MyGMRS members: KF0NYL KC8LDO KE8OWX KO6BIK KD2TWM K4BJW

It was difficult for me too and I’m just one state to the west.

Ha! No problem. Sorry to be so OCD.

@OffRoaderX: this is your stomping grounds. What’s your opinion?

Not very much; every user is still required to use the proper call sign (even though all of them are using the same call sign), but in this situation the repeater is not required to ID separately.