Topband: FT8: Making it too easy?

[Raoul Coetzee]

 I would like to know if FT8 also uses the same "Deep Search" as JT65.If it does, read this and decide if it is for you.

JT65, is it doing what we want it to do?


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Raoul ZS1C
    On Thursday, October 26, 2017, 8:36:27 PM GMT+2, DXer <hfdxmonitor at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi Mark,

So, if I use the same 'rational' some people here seems to use, those DXCC
awards earned with full legal power, multiple towers, beams, and amps,
should really be a mark of shame on their holders?  :^)

There is no one way, your way, yes, but not only one way.

73 de Vince, VA3VF



On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Vince
>
> Well, you could use a machine gun instead of a bow and arrow to bag the
> “big one” and hang it’s head on the wall,  but it wouldn’t be quite the
> same, now would it?
>
> What’s the difference in rolling up to the ice-cream hop in your 1962
> Coupe DeVille convertible that you just cut a check for,  or rolling up in
> one that you’ve spent years restoring?
>
> I think that pretty much answers your question.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2017 1:45 PM, "DXer" <hfdxmonitor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For those that say FT8 makes it too easy to win awards, climb the DXCC
>> ladder, or make it into the HR.
>>
>> May I ask what the reason is for going to the trouble, and expense, of
>> purchasing the best transceivers, installing towers, beams, and amps?
>>
>> How is your operating enhanced, if not by making it easier to 'bag' that
>> difficult entity?
>>
>> Wouldn't a DXCC award be more valuable if earned with a galena receiver,
>> and an indoor random wire?
>>
>> 73 de Vince, VA3VF
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