Good question Ed! Many use Clublog as their source of information when making such quotes and I can assure you that the digi crowd are certainly uploading more contacts there than all of us who are o
So don't believe Clublog results, just turn on your radio and compare activity on FT8 with activity on other modes. You'll have to download and install the devil's WSJT-X to do that. I hope that your
I think that racing sailboats, row boats, canoes, and kayaks in the same race is not necessarily desirable. Operating each requires different skill sets. They each go at different rates. They each ex
And as I pointed out, ClubLog is not the only source of data. RBN tested this. FT8 to CW was roughly 85% to 15%. If phone is another 15 to 20%, that still puts FT8 way, way ahead. The point is that t
It is that way on HF. But on VHF the different modes arent segregated. Do we really want a CQWW VHF SSB contest, CQWW VHF CW contest, a CQWW VHF RTTY contest AND a CQWW VHF FT8 contest? Theres also t
I get what you are saying and I get that VHF+ is different. But we somehow manage to have 3 mode specific NAQP contests twice a year. And yes, I think having some mode specific VHF+ contests would be
Another unfair comparison - there are LOTS more PSKreporter monitors than RBN monitors (an order of magnitude difference, more on 6 meters!) plus the RBN spots from each monitor are at best once per
Terry, Thats a false assumption. The sample data that RBN collected was from a few beta testers. It was not widespread. It was from wideband SDRs and the data came from the same source and likely the
Not a chance Jim ! I do admit I had DXCC and many hundreds of grids before WAS on 6m. (Hawaii was my holdout), but I can say without hesitation that if I could've worked Hawaii in 2 yrs on FT8(or RTT
All, I feel like I am fighting the same battle on alternate fronts here. It's either "FT8 isn't real radio and shouldn't be allowed" or "No one needs to run 1500 W to work DX". The common thread is t
Eric - You don't really need to exaggerate when talking about the differences between east and west coast propagation and opportunities for QSOs. I'm in southern New England - northern Connecticut. T
Actually, the propagation is the same on the West Coast as it is on the East Coast. The issue is the lack of DX participation in Japan, China, India, Australia, Indonesia, etc that rivals Europe. If
Sure it maybe suck in DX contests from the west coast but all is not lost because you do enjoy an advantage in domestic contests.The same could be said about not hearing Asia and Southeast Asia from
Whats the big deal? The State QSO parties, FD, and many foreign DX contests separate the modes by category in the same contest. Why cant that work with VHF/UHF? That way CW and phone arent competing
It is kind of ironic that as more and more rigs come out with bandscopes so you can see all of the activity on the band, more and more stations are content to sit on one frequency (50.313) for the en
In any contest, "activity is good." Actually, its essential. Allowing credit for CW, SSB and digital QSOs with the same station would significantly increase the number of available QSOs. I don't see
John, Plus, with some SDR rigs such as the Flex-6000 series you can have one panadapter set to one part of the band (e.g., 50.313) while monitoring another part of the band (CW), or another band, at
I will agree that E-Skip is regional. Sometime you get favored, sometimes you don't. However the 15M prop on IARU was not E-Skip that I could tell. You can't measure prop by "whose on?". If there is
Author: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:51:01 +0000 (UTC)
Keep in mind that on VHF cross mode QSOs - CW to SSB - are common. I've probably worked W2SZ/1 more time over the years by calling them on CW when they couldn't hear me on SSB on two meters. We'd gen