Kenneth Davis

yeah the wsjtx adif file thing is a known pain. the program doesnt close and reopen it cleanly every time, it kind of appends in chunks and if your watchdog fires mid-write you'll get a partial record or duplicate depending on how your parser handles it. what i ended up doing was not watching the file at all — instead i just poll it every 60 seconds and keep a local sqlite db of qso timestamps i've already pushed. anything new in the adif that isnt in my db gets uploaded, nothing gets sent twice. bit of a hack but its been running solid for like 8 months now on a pi 3b i had sitting in a drawer.
the xmlrpc flrig thing is a great idea btw, i never thought to throw an oled on there but now i kind of want to. what display driver you using, the ssd1306 with luma.oled or something else?

yeah the TX bandwidth thing catches a lot of people out, icom sets it conservatively from the factory i think. glad you sorted it. i ran a 7300 for about two years before moving to the 7610 and honestly the 7300 punches well above its price, the only real limitation i ran into was serious contesting where the dual watch stuff on the 7610 matters. for everyday HF work the 7300 is hard to beat at that price point.
the touchscreen i never fully made peace with tbh. ended up programming most of my common settings into the function keys which helped a lot. worth spending an afternoon on that if you havent.

so i finally got my general ticket back in the spring and ive been mostly just doing casual ragchews on 40m and some digital stuff but my buddy at the club keeps telling me i should try CQ WW this october and i figured why not, worst case i just learn something right
the thing is i dont really understand how the whole exchange works in phone contests, like i get that you're sending signal reports and zones but it goes SO fast when i tune around and i can barely catch what people are saying half the time. is there like a good way to practice before the actual weekend or should i just jump in and embarrass myself until it clicks
also wondering if it's even worth trying from my setup which is just a G5RV up about 25 feet and a hundred watt radio. i see people talking about stacked yagis and amplifiers and stuff and i feel like i'd just be noise in the background. maybe i should try ARRL Field Day first since thats coming up too and seems a little more relaxed? idk open to advice here

i mean i only have the 7300 so cant really compare directly but the waterfall alone is worth it imo, i use it constantly just to see whats happening on a band before i even tune anywhere. setup for wsjt-x took me like 20 minutes the first time which was pretty painless. only thing i'd say is the stock mic is kinda meh but thats pretty common

few things to check here. first, VARA HF has a free version that limits you to like 300 baud max throughput, which can cause sessions to time out if the gateway is expecting the full speed connection — not sure if you have the licensed version or not but worth knowing. second, 7.101 is correct for Region 2 generally but the specific RMS gateway you're trying to connect to might not be on that exact freq, some are offset slightly. you want to pull up the Winlink gateway list in the software and actually look at the frequency listed for that specific station, dont assume theyre all on the same dial freq.
the path thing you're asking about — yeah you basically just connect to the RMS gateway and it handles pushing to the CMS on the backend, you dont have to configure any routing yourself on the client side. if you got a partial connection once you're probably close, could just be propagation or the gateway was busy. try a different time of day and maybe a different gateway thats geographically closer to you.