Topband: Straws in the Wind ....A 160m Dx'ing Sea Change is Upon us!

[Wes Stewart]

I've "made a contact", if you want to call it that, with that robot twice now.  
That's about the only use I have for FT8; making contacts that shouldn't count 
for anything, although, I think ARRL accepts them for the grid chase thingy.

Wes  N7WS

ps. At least it didn't send me a text via JTAlert telling me what to send next, 
as happened on a "QSO" with some west African station.

On 3/30/2018 12:23 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote:
> actually happening as we speak ( or type)......Jupiter Research Foundation has 
> an unmanned boat type drone searching the pacific for humpback whales, and the 
> drone has a solar powered ham transceiver on board, passing out FT8 contacts 
> as it motors around the pacific....last I looked made a little over 1100 
> qsos.....from some pretty rare grid squares !!!!