Topband: FT8 qrm

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Ed,

Being a gentleman isn't not about putting one's own interests ahead of 
everybody else, either.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 11/29/2017 11:47 AM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
> I'm sorry but I don't buy the argument that the way to be a "gentleman" is
> to accept everyone else's interests above your own.  A "gentleman" is
> respectful of others and treats others as he/she wants to be treated.
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> No one owns a frequency channel at least in the US - read your license.
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> If I come on a frequency, hear nothing, ask QRL using a legal and accepted
> mode for the frequency and hear nothing, I am using the frequency.  By the
> way - even the ARRL admits there is no longer a "DX Window" on 160M.
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> If FT8 is such a fragile mode to QRM that it needs a 2khz undisturbed
> window, then it is a flawed mode that will not stand the test of time in my
> opinion.  I am already starting to hear DX side people saying it's a
> complete waste of time and abandoning it.  I hear 3Y is going to try it -
> that should be hilarious.
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> I think that most of the FT8 crowd is horribly misinformed with dribble they
> read on the internet and think that some "net authority" has granted
> exclusive access to said frequency band and that they have had such right
> since June.
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> Look for me on 1840 in the ARRL 160 this weekend after listening, asking
> QRL, and seeing if I am disturbing anyone in my 400hz receiving window.
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> 73
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> Ed  N1UR
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