I had a short 6 meter Es opening to Arizona last Saturday night and made a few FT8 contest QSOs. I never thought to check FT4. Was there much FT4 activity in the contest? I know that it is supposed t
John, I check FT4 frequency repeatedly: No signals ever. When there is an Eskip opening BE ON SSB. I saw some Eskip while on FT8: switched to SSB. Netted 5 QSOs on the Gulf Coast from WPA (only two g
Author: PAUL ROLLINSON <paulrollinson@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:49:39 +0000 (UTC)
What are the typical freqs used on ft4? 6M, 2M, 222, 432, 903 & 1296? Because of the short duration required to make the q, it would be ideal for the light skip seen on 6M Sunday morning before it op
We checked for FT4 at the beginning of the contest. Found none and went off to FT8 where there was a lot of activity. Seemed strange to us, but that is what we found.... 73 Marshall K5QE 73 John W5
I had a FT4 window open the whole time and CQd on FT4 a couple of times, but never heard anyone. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@co
Author: Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:17:50 +0000 (UTC)
I just looked at PSK reporter. In the last two hours there were 1315412 FT 8 QSOs - which was the number one mode. FT 4 was a distant second at 33268. So, somebody is using FT 4. No one, around here,
Hi Buddy, Were any of those FT4s on 6 or 2 meters? Seems to me like FT4 might be intended for HF. 73, Chet, N8RA --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+chetsubaccount=snet.ne
Author: Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 02:25:39 +0000 (UTC)
PSK reporter does not break it down by bands. The high end of our VHF and UHF bands have multiple Digital Voice modes. We may have multiple digital modes, on the low end of the bands. Buddy _________