I operated part-time during the CQ contest and found conditions
to be reasonably good on 6m at the start of the contest. The mode
distribution for my 6m QSOs was:
SSB --- 135 QSOs
CW --- 6
MSK144 - 13
FT8 --- 71
FT4 --- 19
My MSK144 total would no doubt have been better if I had gotten
up early Sunday morning. FT4 was good while it lasted, but after
an initial flurry of QSOs, I moved to FT8 due to lack of ongoing
activity on FT4.
73, Arliss W7XU
EN13 South Dakota
On 7/23/2020 12:24 PM, Mark Spencer wrote:
Hi I am curious to hear from anyone who used FT4 during the CQ
VHF contest. I don't recall seeing any activity on the 50
MHz FT4 frequency on my band scope when I was in CO80 on
Saturday, but I may have missed some activity. I did manage
to detect SSB activity on various odd frequencies such as
50.150 and worked stations so I believe I was keeping a
reasonable eye on things (:
I sort of enjoyed watching the band scope and changing
frequencies from time to time but it got rather hot inside the
truck in the sun despite the cool outside temperatures (below
20 degrees C) but air conditioning helped at times at the
expense of a somewhat higher noise floor.
73
Mark S VE7AFZ
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