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[Steven Daniel]

Isn’t it amazing that unless someone does it just as you did (old tech, no internet, output power limited by LORAN, etc.) that their achievement doesn’t quite make the grade? After all, nobody’s seen the trouble I’ve seen, right?
Spend a few quality moments reading On the Origin of Species. Then either get busy evolving or go extinct.
If the latter is your choice, please do it quietly. The rest of us are working new ones on Top Band on whatever mode they are available. And none of us wants to be distracted by your death-whine.
Steve, NN4T


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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 7:32 PM, Cecil <chacuff at cableone.net> wrote:
> 
> Still taking pokes at the FT8 ops.
> 
> What would constitute an exceptional achievement on FT8? 
> 
> That’s like telling CW guys that their achievements aren’t really noteworthy compared to how the Sideband guys have done it.
> 
> Cecil
> K5DL
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Feb 12, 2020, at 12:18 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> ”Although when someone announces an incredible achievement on top band that
>> could only be achieved using FT8, we need to be sure that it is not glossed
>> over that it doesn't make it necessarily a great lifetime achievement vs the
>> way others were doing it.  It isn't.”
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ed  N1UR
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