[CQ-Contest] FT4 *is* a contesting mode. Was: WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc6

[James Cain]

>"We already had this problem in the 2018 JUNE VHF contest.  Awesome 6 meter
openings for most of the contest, but everyone sat on 50.313 using FT8.
The QRM was so bad that making contacts was slow going.  Think I finished
with 40 grids or something like that.  Given the size and length of the
openings, I could have easily worked 100 grids on SSB and CW. And people
complain about making QSOs on the calling frequency. -- 73 John W5TD" This
is so sad to read -- to have someone put the FT Problem in such stark
terms, from experience. Anybody who thinks the FT-whatever modes aren't
ruining DXing, too, just isn't thinking. It was bad enough when expeditions
began spending more and more time on RTTY, hence less time on CW and SSB.
Now, with FT-whatever, it only gets worse. Just wait until somebody gets
operating permission from North Korea, limited to FT-whatever, to "make it
easier for officials to monitor transmissions." I'm hugging my Mixed DXCC
Top of the Honor Roll plaque (1994) and thinking how glad I am to have done
that when it still required HEARING the other station and in fact it didn't
require a computer at all. Jim Cain K1TN