[CQ-Contest] WSJT-X For contests - Dry Run

[Jeff Clarke]

David, AB7E, you are totally wrong about digital modes effecting CW. 
This is a big problem on 40 meters during any domestic CW contest. 7040 
and 5 khz on either side is unusable during any CW contest because of 
FT8 activity. During the NAQP CW and NA Sprint there is usually a RTTY 
contest going on that effects below 7040.

 From AA5AU's web page :

40 meters – 7025 to 7050 kHz and 7080 to 7100 kHz, during contests 
7025-7100 kHz (JA 7030-7100 kHz). (USA stations are also allowed RTTY 
between 7100-7125 kHz).

I'm for everyone doing there thing but I've never found digital modes 
that challenging from a operating standpoint because no operator skill 
is required to copy signals. Your computer does all the work. I've tried 
both and became quickly bored with it.

Jeff KU8E


On 10/25/2018 09:12 AM, Yuri Blanarovich wrote:
> Who is bigot?
> Nobody is arguing or opposing of technology developments and progress 
> in ham radio.
> What the problem is trying to accept the "jet engine powered bicycle 
> competing with human powered bicycles in Tour de France".
> Preserve "classic" categories (Phone, CW, RTTY digital - talking, 
> Morse code, digital)
> Consider keeping real licensed stations with operators present.
> Rest, have "Wild" category where anything goes.
>
> Having transgenders beating women is not progress or competition. 
> Bigot is crap being forced on those trying to maintain sanity in 
> competition.
>
> Yuri, K3BU
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 04:09 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
>  >
>> What do you care what the data modes are evolving into if you don't 
>> use them (even RTTY) and they don't affect the CW and SSB contests 
>> that you do use?
>>
>> I don't get it.  Amateur radio is thankfully a lot broader than your 
>> definition of it, and for the most part manages to keep the various 
>> modes segregated enough to satisfy everyone.   It makes zero sense to 
>> bitch about what other people do if they aren't negatively affecting 
>> you.  That doesn't make you old, or outdated ... it makes you a bigot.
>>
>> "Bigot: A /bigot/ is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any 
>> opinions differing from their own."
>>
>> Dave   AB7E
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/23/2018 1:50 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
>>> As we move ever closer to fully-automated data modes, the divide 
>>> between data and
>>> non-data modes gets bigger.  When and if the operator becomes 
>>> incidental, what will
>>> be the point of such contest QSOs - other than bragging that my 
>>> software is smarter
>>> than yours?
>>>
>>> WSJT-X may be the "flavour of the month" now - but, next month, or 
>>> certainly next
>>> year, something "better" will turn up - as the potential for "new 
>>> and improved" data
>>> modes is limitless.  Some see this as progress in amateur radio and 
>>> contesting - I see
>>> it as progress in automated two-way data processing over RF.
>>>
>>> It seems to me that any mode that is not and can not be decoded by 
>>> individual
>>> contesters (people) in real-time does not truly represent amateur 
>>> radio.  But what
>>> would  I know, being just an old-fashioned (outdated?) contester who 
>>> keeps to
>>> phone and CW :-)
>>>
>>> Some will argue that we have to keep up, we can't stop progress, and 
>>> that amateur
>>> radio and contesting are evolving.  I say that data modes are 
>>> evolving into something
>>> else entirely.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Paul EI5DI
>>>
>>
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*Jeff Clarke*
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