I'm very new to VHF Contesting. I discovered NA Contest mode via
Marshall's article the day before the contest by Googling, "how to do VHF
contesting with FT8." I ran a very relaxed effort (dipole in attic) and
did FT8 on six meters exclusively. For me it was so much fun to watch the
Es situation change hour-by-hour over the US with so many stations on.
Most of the stations I encountered were using contest mode. A few weren't,
and it did take some quick clicking to reset WSJT-X back to "funny number
mode." :) Ironically for me, I saw K5QE on my waterfall several times,
but he couldn't hear (see?) me. I wanted to show that even someone so new
to this can do contest mode! :D
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/*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/
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