[CQ-Contest] possible changes for CQ VHF Contest

Jim Brown k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com
Wed Jul 24 13:09:38 EDT 2019


So don't believe Clublog results, just turn on your radio and compare 
activity on FT8 with activity on other modes. You'll have to download 
and install the devil's WSJT-X to do that. I hope that your soul is not 
thereby permanently stained by the act of trying to learn the facts. :)

73, Jim K9YC

On 7/24/2019 5:52 AM, Edward Sawyer wrote:
> I called CQ on SSB for an hour and called CQ on CW for an hour.  I worked about 100 stations.  This was a weekday evening with a mix of NA, SA, and Eu stations.  I then looked up each call to see how many were log uploaders to Clublog.  The answer, only 20% of that “traffic” uploaded to clublog.
> 
> Beware of assumptions on data.
> 
> 75% of clublog uploaders may be FT8 – to your point probably higher.  But that does not represent the HF traffic at all.



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