[CQ-Contest] ARRL to allow self-spotting in contests

[Joe]

Hi Dave,

What do you mean the signal processing is being held hostage?

Joe WB9SBD / W9ET

On 2/18/2022 11:17 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> The signal processing techniques utilized in FT8 could have been used 
> to enhance the signal-to-noise of normal CW in a way that would have 
> been virtually transparent to the operator.   It's truly a shame that 
> WSJT-X has landlocked those techniques within FT8 in the minds of just 
> about everyone in our hobby, as well as giving those techniques such a 
> bad image that nobody seems willing to take up the mantle to fix it.
>
> The signal processing technology behind FT8 is awesome, but it is 
> neither unique nor proprietary.  It should have enhanced the hobby for 
> all of us, especially for us contesters since almost all of our 
> transmissions come from keypresses in a logging program anyway. 
> Instead it is being held hostage to WSJT-X for no real reason other 
> than inertia.
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 2/18/2022 8:13 AM, James Cain wrote:
>> I agree with HA3LN that FT-8 is a terrible blow to what an ARRL director
>> snidely referred to -- on this reflector -- as "our sandbox." Yes, I 
>> play
>> only unassisted and you call it what you want.
>>
>> A neighbor guy dropped by and I had just set up my Superstation for this
>> weekend -- a TS590 on a card table and a 11-foot wire dropped out the 
>> 2nd
>> floor window. "I can talk to Europe, South America, maybe even Japan 
>> with
>> this" said I.  "On Morse code."
>>
>> cain K1TN
>
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