Topband: FT-8 Contest would be great for Topband

[Michael Walker]

Yes, the success is staggering.

There are graphs that show the FT8 usage and I would paste it into the body
of the email, but I can't.  Clublog published it somewhere.   It shows a
deep decline on CW and a minor decline on SSB and this was 2 years ago.
https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2019/03/club-log-stats-show-rise-of-ft8-mode-in.html

Geral K5SDR summed it up well here:
https://www.flexradio.com/ft8-tipping-point-for-ham-radio/

Mike va3mw


On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 2:06 PM W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com> wrote:

> 1.5 million hits for FT8? WOW!
>
> On 1/10/2020 11:38 AM, Herbert Schoenbohm wrote:
> > I know the purists will flame me for this but look at the
> > frequency conservation this would present and look at the activity
> > statistics for only the past couple of hours,
> >
> > AIf the contest was designed well sub-channels could be recommended for
> the
> > various continents as Stew Perry use to urge for intercontinental QSO's
> > from 1825-1830.
> >
> > Here are the amazing stats for only two hours.
> >
> > Modes over last 2 hours
> > Mode Count
> > FT8 1549146
> > FT4 41733
> > JS8 7895
> > CW 6894
> > PSK31 433
> > JT65 383
> > OPERA 132
> > JT9 65
> > MSK144 37
> > OLIVIA 22
> > OLIVIA 8 22
> > JT6M 18
> > ROS 14
> > DOMINO 13
> > PI4 12
> > OLIVIA-8 9
> > PSK63 9
> > FSK441 8
> > JT65B 7
> > WSPR 6
> > RTTY 5
> > MT63-500 1
> > SIM31 1
> > THOR 1
> > THOR22 1
> > PSK 1
> > CONTESTI 1
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> >
> > Herb, KV4FZ
> >
> >
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