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Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster

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Subject: Re: Topband: FT8 clutter on the DX Cluster
From: Henk PA5KT via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Henk PA5KT <pa5kt@remijn.net>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 16:51:17 +0200
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That is because for some people it can be useful information if they want to make contacts.

What is DX or not is up for the listener.

There is nothing different then with CW spots.

73 Henk PA5KT

Op 13-5-2020 om 01:58 schreef Roger Kennedy:
Why oh why do some people post on the DX Cluster every FT8 station they have
heard?

One GM station this evening posted 21 stations . . . none of them were even
DX !

I don't even see why you would post ANY on the DX Cluster . . . I thought
the whole point of FT8 is that you leave your computer listening on the same
frequency, so surely any stations will just come up on the screen?

Whereas posting the frequency of a CW or SSB DX station on the Cluster is
really useful to help people find those stations, and attempt a QSO.

Also . . . as others have said, DX propagation is still pretty good on 160m
most nights . . . but despite lots of CQ calls by myself and other EU
stations, we're often getting no replies!  (despite RBN reports being good)

73 Roger G3YRO

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