I was riding to a DX club meeting on Monday night with a friend who recently started playing around with FT8. He said he's worked 60+ countries in a week or so using 100w. Not on 160m. He said that
Oooh! Verrrry well said, Dave!! Short and perfect. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com "Technologies available before you reached the age of 35 are standard; every op should use them. Technologies that arrive
One can think of FT8 as a Pinball machine or a video game. You click "here" at the right time and maybe the ball falls just right and the other station comes back to you. If not, you click again. Pre
Author: Mike DeChristopher <mfdechristopher@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:06:19 -0400
I represent the under 30 crowd (for another few years at least) who isn't really into JT65, FT8, etc.. I still prefer the "between the ears" -modes. However, I see the JT and other weak signal modes
Steve, That was a good read. I see there's a lot of replies so I'll send this before reeading them... I too love CW and it is without a doubt my favorite mode. You asked a question and I have used FT
I was riding to a DX club meeting on Monday night with a friend who recently started playing around with FT8. He said he's worked 60+ countries in a week or so using 100w. Not on 160m. He said that
Author: "Chortek, Robert L." <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:17:40 +0000
I rarely weigh in these debates (and dont even know what these digital modes are except in the most general terms) but I dont see any movement whatsoever to (a) require folks to use digital modes, or
Spark had other uses, Add ozone to the air, reduce the insect bug population, warm up the shack in cold WX, Arc kept you awake, could light your cigar when needed. So outside of minimizing your perso
As Ive said before, I dont believe its a case of FT8 being good or bad for ham radio. The problem is a level playing field for competition purposes. Personally, I dont believe statements such as Your
Shoot, Tree did it with CW DECADES ago. Contest Exuberantly, Hank, W6SX _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
I am pretty serious about DXing. I am not on the honor roll. I have over 300 confirmed. I couldn't tell you who is at the top. Why does it matter? Those at the top did it their way, whatever that
I just dont see a problem here. I've been working on QRP WAS on Topband for several years, and last fall was down to needing WV, SC, and VT. All QSOs were CW, and made during contests. A major reaso
Author: José E. Ribeiro de Sá <zemurtosa@mail.telepac.pt>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:36:11 -0500
No FT8 for me in topband or 6m, in fact in all bands, Hi! Exception made for the 60m band (5 MHz), but if the station shows up in CW I would rather work it CW than in FT8. I'm an IT guy, but this is
I think the game changing aspect of FT8 is that many folks who would normally be available to work on CW or SSB will now be on FT8. The amount of activity on the FT8 frequency of any band is phenomen
On 10/25/2017 12:38 PM, Charlie Young wrote: ...The first big thrill was hearing my own CW echo several days in a row, before getting my 8877 amp finished and firing up JT65A. One of the biggest thri
Author: George Taft via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:30:20 +0000 (UTC)
I'm with you, Steve. BRAVO! 73 George W8UVZ Hi Steve I FULLY agree on all you write. Unfortunately I also feel that Ham radio is more or less lost. According to me,,,this is NOT Ham radio,, it is
Steve, as a relatively young ham living in a populous area, I have some things to offer to this thread... To give you some background: Im 36, been licensed since 1994. Did the whole progression befor
Explain why on some nights there are many FT8 signals, and no CW signals. No one calling CQ and everyone just listening. If you build it they will come. Mike va3mw _________________ Topband Reflector
One can on any given evening call CQ in the CW sub band and get picked up by skimmers around the world, yet not get a reply 73 _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com