Topband: FT-8

[Jan Erik Holm]

23 december 1997 I worked KH6AT on 160m SSB. Bryce wrote
on the QSL card: First ever SSB QSO between KH6 and Europe.

I hope that he was right.

73 Jim SM2EKM
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On 2019-02-01 05:18, K9FD wrote:
> Aloha Len,
> Remember those QSOs,  very rare SSB contact as I dont work SSB, but your 
> signal was
> loud so I gave it a try.
> Good year for 160,  hoping they will return in the next couple years.
> 73 Merv  K9FD  ex KH7C
>> Hi Dave and all.
>> Cleaning my radio room but will keep a dear QSL card from year 2009 
>> stating
>> two different QSOs on SSB, reports 59, 58 and one on CW stating 569 CW.
>> Oh, the card is from KH7C ex K9FD for a two way QSO on 160 between Sweden
>> and Hawaii.
>> That is it!
>> 73
>> Len SM7BIC
>>
>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
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>> daraymond at iowatelecom.net
>> Skickat: den 31 januari 2019 23:37
>> Till: cqtestk4xs at aol.com; topband at contesting.com
>> Ämne: Re: Topband: FT-8
>>
>> There is simply no substitute for the real, direct, visceral 
>> connection one
>> has with the person on the other end with either CW or SSB modes.  
>> I'll be
>> in charge of the QSO, thank you.   Not my computer.
>>
>> 73. . . Dave, W0FLS
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cqtestk4xs--- via Topband
>> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 3:59 PM
>> To: topband at contesting.com
>> Subject: Topband: FT-8
>>
>> This thread has been addressed on various reflectors.
>> I've tried it, made around 400 contacts or so, and found the mode pretty
>> boring.  Even with my pileups on FT-8 the mode left me cold.  I felt the
>> same way with RTTY...tried it and found it boring.  Why?  With CW 
>> SSB/AM I
>> felt a connection with the other person, someone sending with a key or a
>> person speaking to me.  With RTTY and especially FT-8 my machine is 
>> decoding
>> your machine.  Oh yeah, I know my XCVR is a machine and so is yours, 
>> but for
>> me it's not the same.
>> I understand why guys get all hot and bothered about the new mode, it 
>> gives
>> the guys who don't know CW a chance to work DX on a mode other than 
>> SSB and
>> gives the weaker signal guys a chance to work DX.  For the guys with 
>> bigger
>> stations it gives them a chance to work the rarer ones on tough bands 
>> like,
>> 160 or 6.  Maybe that's why I'm not into FT-8, I've got a big station, 
>> and
>> can work CW.  Also, I've never been really into putting the new one in 
>> the
>> log as much as many guys are...I'm more of a contester.
>> If you want to work your pileups and/or work 300 countries on FT-8, 
>> that's
>> fine with me.  I'm not going to look down my nose at you but please don't
>> condescendingly  tell me I'm a dinosaur or refuse to accept new 
>> technology.
>> I'm accepting it, I just don't want to be part of it.  No hard feelings.
>> Bill KH7XS/KH7B/K4XS
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