Topband: JA's came in droves today on 160

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Exactly Ed, Just as SSB did to AM and digital modes are doing to RTTY.
Soon it may be computers working computers with minimal operator
supervision.  Right now on FT-8 when statins call my CQ they are answered
and sent a signal report automatically and the logging is done with a
single point and click. CW Maybe Kim will allow a fully automated FT-8
application running 24/7 on the 800-foot high rise building on downtown
Pyongyang.  Still, CW, depending on the operator, seems to have the
advantage.  Except during a contest, most of the 160-meter DX has moved to
1840 and more will follow assuredly.

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ



On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:28 PM Edward Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Such is the new trend.  No offense to KV4FZ whatsoever but if you provide
> the easy path.most will take it.  The only way to affect the "easy way out"
> is to not provide it.
>
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> I remember year's ago doing CQ WW CW ABLP as C6ARS in 2001.  I ended the
> contest on 15M running a couple of hundred JAs. I thought, this is amazing
> because I am just as loud from W1 and I couldn't imagine having so many JA
> stations call.  Clearly they are much more DXers than full contesters -
> most
> of them.  Still feel that way today.  I have heard piles of JAs calling
> right before a contest only to dry up in the contest.
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> Its fascinating that the above has now shifted to FT8 vs the more
> traditional modes in just DXing.  Herb, it would be a very interesting
> experiment to shift to CW mid pile-up and see if the group stays with you
> to
> catch the DX opening or does it dwindle to nothing.  I am guessing it goes
> to nothing despite the opening.  But would love to hear.
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> FT8 is changing the "easiness factor" in DXing.  And like technology
> assisted driving, once that genie is out of the bottle it ain't never goin
> back.  Just try and find an actual stick shift in a new car - almost
> impossible.  Why?  It doesn't mesh with the computer driving the car.
>
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> 73
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> Ed  N1UR
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