[CQ-Contest] possible changes for CQ VHF Contest

[Peter Sundberg]

Good question Ed!

Many use Clublog as their source of information when making such 
quotes and I can assure you that the digi crowd are certainly 
uploading more contacts there than all of us who are on the bands 
daily to find old friends and new acquaintances to chat with.

And for some reason, maybe because of the very limited ability to 
transfer of info in FT8, they have to spot their QSOs on the cluster 
to say "Thanks, -7" (which is SSB quality). So in my view these are 
not real spots intended to highlight someones activity, instead it's 
a social interaction on the cluster network, that is not supposed to 
be a social media platform.

So we can't really use the cluster either as a source of data in this 
regard as there are so many other QSOs in other modes that are never 
spotted because it is considered unethical to do so.

I guess the experts are fully propagating the marketing created by 
someone who invented the mode and they are doing it for free. 
Actually, people now fully believe that they can not work stations on 
6m unless they are using FT8.

As far as contesting is concerned, this in itself is a strong 
indicator that they must be in their own class.

73
Peter SM2CEW


At 09:59 2019-07-24, Edward Sawyer wrote:
>"70% of ham traffic is now FT8."
>
>I am curious where this datapoint is coming from?
>
>Ed  N1UR
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