Indeed...

Here's another funny one (to me):  Icom sponsors a D-Star "contest".  Most of it doesn't rely on RF to begin with, and you either get through or you don't - when you don't, it's not due to lack of skill or superior skill of another op...it's because two computers tried to access the same part of some server somewhere at the same time.  It's just an advertising vehicle for Icom, the main supplier of D-Star radios.

I don't have a 6m antenna at my house...I've gone mountaintopping  with a dipole before, but with all the emphasis on FT-8, I probably won't waste the gasoline.

73 de Lee, AA4GA


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:13 PM Hal Kennedy <halken@comcast.net> wrote:
I'm with Cort and Lee....although I will participate.  Ill be on CW and SSB.

I don't see FT-8 as a contest mode.  Contesting is about getting stations in the log as fast as you can, as accurately as you can.  With FT-8 the speed is the speed of the protocol...the accuracy is 100%.  This is contesting?  Granted there is some skill involved with knowing when the band will open, etc....but if you jump-out the transmit time-out, you can turn the computer on and come back 24 hours later and see how "you" did.  

I use FT-8 for help with grids and DXCC - it is a weak signal mode.  It's not a contest mode.  
Now off the soapbox....

73
Hal N4GG   
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