[CQ-Contest] CQ 160 Contest

[Jim Brown]

I worked about 12 hours of the contest, and from where I sat, near San 
Francisco, I heard VERY little QRM from CW ops within the FT8 feeding 
hole. I did regularly see smart CW ops parked very close to 1840 and 
1843. Each time I'd go up and down the band "searching and pouncing" I'd 
hear no more than one CW op in that spectrum, and when I sent "FT8 FT8 
FT8," they usually QSYed, and I don't remember hearing the same offender 
more than once. Putting this in perspective, I never heard more than one 
CW station within that 3 kHz segment, whereas, at least below about 1860 
kHz, it was common at least 15 stations to be packing into 3 kHz.

My RX antennas allow me to hear reasonably well equipped stations 
throughout most of North America, so it seemed to me that FT8 operators 
had no cause for complaint, at least within North America.

73, Jim K9YC