Topband: FT8 qrm

[Wes Stewart]

My scenario had the CW man on the frequency FIRST.

On 11/29/2017 4:54 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> A typical CW guy will hear FT8 or JT65 as a kinda whiny wobbly intermittent carrier. And will probably think it’s just some neighborhood switching power supply noise. He won’t CQ right on top of it (because he wants to hear a DX respondent) but he will have no problem firing up 500 Hz away.
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> But the digital guys e.g. FT8 have 2khz wide filters. So there is a fundamental assymetry here.
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> Tim N3QE
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> Sent from my VAX-11/780
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>> On Nov 28, 2017, at 10:50 PM, Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
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>> So what's the protocol when a CW man checks a frequency, hears nothing, sends a couple of QRL? and hears nothing and begins to run stations.  Then sometime later a guy running an imaginary mode...oops...sorry, FT8 shows up and wants to park on the CW man's frequency?  Who is to blame?  I'll answer my own question: the FT8 guy who is QRMing an occupied frequency.
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>> Besides the FT8 guys can always resort to JTAlert to QSO via text messaging as one west African station apparently tried to do with me.
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>> Wes  N7WS
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>>> On 11/28/2017 10:45 AM, Bryon Paul Veal NØAH wrote:
>>> There were ops all over the FT8 segments, refused to even try and work them and some were some pretty rare mults for CQWWCW...gentleman agreements are of the past.....sucks
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>>> PAUL. N0aH