Author: k1zm--- via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 07:50:03 -0400
Hello Gang I am probably not the only one who has been paying attention lately, but I may be the first to comment directly on what has been taking place right before our eyes the past two nights on
Jeff, and others: From K1JT on the WSJT web pages and instructions: Please note: DXpedition Mode is not yet ready for production? use. Until WSJT-X v1.9.0 is fully released, this mode should be used
Don, seeing your trip is midsummer, you should strongly consider using FT8 for EU on 40m as to Western EU there is NO common darkness. Otherwise the lowest band Western EU will be able to work KH1 is
Clive: We do have a 40 mtr antenna at the digital site. I will keep that in mind. Prop charts show a 1 hour window to OH/GM/ etc. EU is a target area of our operation, hence the 24 hour 20 mtr mannin
IMHO, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the demise of CW (alas). Between FT8 and RHR, topband standings as we have known them are virtually meaningless. The guy with a backyard vertical, reas
Ive been having a lot of fun with FT8 but it certainly has not replaced CW for my DXing. I do 80M-specific DX Marathon each year. So far this year I have 107 80M DXCCs worked - 104 on CW and 3 on SSB
I also observed the same on 6M last summer when the switch was flipped and FT8 replaced CW and SSB on 6M. I've enjoyed 6M for only a few years, but I lost all interest, despite my 6L SteppIR and KPA5
SORRY to say. Of course everyone do what they like to do, BUT FT8 and ,,,no hearing QSO:s,,, will destroy our hobby. Same for me last 6 meter season . Had a 1 hour opening on 6 meter from Florida, to
My thoughts on FT8: - How is it actually a Q from our normal perspective? The comments Jeff made on the fact that 2 operators (on both sides of the circuit) could see evidence of each other for 20 mi
The awards usually come with CW, SSB and digital as categories. What I see is FT8 displacing RTTY for awards, but not for contesting. What FT8 will bring is the ability to use daytimes on 160 and 80
FULLY AGREE. Perfect written. THANKS. BUT it is easy to solve this. If ARRL make a special award for ,,,,no hearing QSO,,,, and make these computer to computer connections ONLY valid for this award,,
Just think about that....After some terrific disaster, you'll be able to tell the outside world your grid square & signal report. Good luck with that... Brian K8BHZ I definitely do see FT8 as having
When 90% of band activity is taking place in ~1% of the available bandwidth, it gets one's attention, doesn't it. Personally, I have always considered DXpedition, and especially contest, CW exchanges
Author: "Lee. KX4TT via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:56:29 -0400
No, That would not be useful, but a bunch of canned messages that resemble grid square numbers would be useful, especially when locations are preplanned. Look at all the Q Codes associated with a SOS
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:21:53 -0400
"Maybe someday there will be unmanned solar-powered stations on remote DX entities." This was actually proposed at the 2017 IDXC in Visalia by a well-known and prolific DXpeditioner. I was the only p
Dave, For those of us who like CW, it will always be the preferred mode. FT8 may lower the DXCC threshold; perhaps it should be counted differently. But FT8 is opening 160 m to hams with limited faci
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:30:41 -0400
George, I understand and agree with most of what you say, but the sailboat analogy is a bad one. I can sail a boat alone. I can't have a QSO without someone else on the same mode. The vacuum FT8 crea
actually happening as we speak ( or type)......Jupiter Research Foundation has an unmanned boat type drone searching the pacific for humpback whales, and the drone has a solar powered ham transceiver
Hello George. . . Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I don't believe most hams have any issue with computer-to-computer modes opening up new opportunities for hams with limited facilities. The rub
I've "made a contact", if you want to call it that, with that robot twice now. That's about the only use I have for FT8; making contacts that shouldn't count for anything, although, I think ARRL acc