THANKS Ed /N1UR for telling ,,,how it really is..
I have also given up ,more or less, on the situation.
6 meter is killed on CW/SSB. ONLY TZ4AM and TT8SN together
with some few Europeans still stay trying to activate CW/SSB. 95% of all others
use FT 8 ,and says its a Qso. Not for me. Never mind if conditions allow
regular CW/SSB connections or not.
I have not made a single Qso on 160/80 for a few years.YES I have given up.
I have ,however, started to call CQ on CW/SSB on 21,24 and 28 mc lately.
I make good OLD way QSO:s ,given report,name,qth, station info and even
WX. ITS real fun. BUT also here VERY FEW active Hams .
In my opinion,thats the problem,lack of activity on CW/SSB.
ONLY during BIG contests ,there is very good activity on CW/SSB ,
BUT between these,very very few active. So this is the way the hobby we
loved is going…SAD.
ARRL ,in my opinion, has really taken some strange decisions.
Take care and enjoy whats left of it.
Hans SM6CVX
> 6 nov 2022 kl. 11:59 skrev <sawyered@earthlink.net> <sawyered@earthlink.net>:
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> Those that think that the other end of their 160 or 80 FT8 QSO is a
> dedicated operator "working them" like the old days just using this new mode
> are seriously kidding themselves. It is well known and not even hidden any
> more, that the "lesser rate" bands are a 2nd radio to the active operator
> who takes a minute every 10 - 20 minutes and clicks on all the calls being
> decoded and goes back to whatever other mode band he is actually operating
> on. This routinely occurs and is now part of the strategy for DXpeditions.
> This is a big reason why there is almost no 160 or 6 CW coming out of them.
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> Is the 160 Q actually while the operator is sleeping. Sure its possible.
> At a minimum it could be he clicked on all the decoded signals just before
> going to bed and the next 30 - 60 minutes on 160 were as he/she was
> sleeping. That's if its attempting to be fully legit to the ARRL DX rules,
> which are simply their rules and no-one else.
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>
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> How pervasive is the "robot mode" while a 6 hour sleep break is taken. Not
> sure. But to say its not possible just because the out of the box FT8
> software doesn't allow it is the height of naivety. Software is changed by
> the user all the time. And macros are used routinely. Its been proven
> already its very doable. The only question is "how pervasive is it" and
> will the Dxpeditioners come clean if they are?
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> I used to love 160 and 80 DX chasing. I have completely given up on it.
> Can't get excited about a DXpedition constantly and then be disappointed
> that it never shows up on 160 and 80CW - which I find to be about 75% of the
> time now on 80 and about 90% of the time on 160. I don't do 6 but hear its
> virtually 100% there.
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> Ed N1UR
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