Someone was broadcasting “CQ FT4 50318” on FT-8 Sunday evening. That’s why
I switched. Made a bunch of QSO there before the end of the contest.
Ed
K4XXX
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 16:31 Dave <kdcarlso@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was pretty late Sunday before people woke up. I tried many times without
> success and then later Sunday it just lit up. For a while it may have been
> too crowded. I would think that it would be preferable with some of the
> short openings where a station is only there for less than a minute.
>
> Dave
> N2OA
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:18 PM John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Herb,
> >
> > Your experience was the opposite of mine. I tuned over to 50.318 quite a
> > few times and found very little activity. I think I made 1 or 2 FT4 QSOs
> > in the contest. Everything else was on FT8 where .313 was packed with
> > activity. I much prefer FT4 in contesting due to its quicker exchanges.
> > Wish more people would use it in contests. It seems to be catching on
> for
> > HF contesting, but not for VHF contesting as much.
> >
> > 73 John AF5CC
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:17 AM Herb Krumich via VHFcontesting <
> > vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Last evening in the contest I was amazed to see how many ops had
> switched
> > > to FT4I ran stations for 3 hoursSo tonight I'm listening on 313 and
> it's
> > > packedNothing on the FT4 freqWhen will people start using a speed mode
> > vs a
> > > snail mode73Herb K2LNS
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