[CQ-Contest] 9L5A

[Jeff Blaine]

And remember the rate of FT8 vs. RTTY in a dxpediton setting. Depending 
on the pileup and RTTY op skill, dxpediton RTTY rates can be miserable.  
FT8 is the silver bullet for the signal level as Jim mentions plus the 
rate improvement.  A win-win from a dxpedition cost per QSO standpoint 
in a digital mode!

73/jeff/ac0c
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On 12/5/2024 2:38 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> It's great that they're doing this, but the importance of FT8 is that 
> it allows us to work 10 dB deeper into the noise that CW with great 
> ops on both ends. On this planet, where the electronic noise has 
> increased by a lot more than that over the last 20 years, that's a 
> VERY BIG DEAL. And it's why AA7JV, a great DXpeditioner, great CW op, 
> and great engineer, and realizing that on multi-week expeditions, 160M 
> opening tended to occur on only one or two nights, developed his 
> system to allow simultaneous operation CW and FT8 operation on 160M.
>
> While I've always been primarily a CW op, and have been avoiding SSB 
> for several years, I've been using WSJT modes for nearly 15 years for 
> small signal work, mostly on 6M, but also on 160M to work EU from my 
> QTH in NorCal, and on 60M, where the allocation is for a half-dozen 
> SSB channels and power is limited to 100W EIRP. I just worked DX 
> entity #102 on that band, loading an 80M dipole.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On 12/4/2024 7:57 AM, Doug Renwick wrote:
>> The following was posted on the 9L5A Web page at:
>>             https://9l5a.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Apart from that, the days follow one another with more than 10,000 QSOs
>> per day with an almost perfect balance between CW, SSB and FT8. It looks
>> so surprising compared to other expeditions that some criticize us for
>> doing too much CW and SSB; this is a shame! We had announced for a long
>> time that we would prioritize “human” modes, otherwise we would not have
>> planned 15 operators. It would for sure be much easier to leave 6 
>> stations
>> running in FT8 and enjoy long nights of sleep, the beach and 31° water,
>> we would already have exceeded 100,000 QSOs. But this is not the vision
>> we have of radio in general and especially an expedition. Given the size
>> of the pileups, there is obviously (and fortunately) a large majority
>> who must think like us.
>>
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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