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[Joe Subich, W4TV]

On 2/19/2024 3:42 PM, uy0zg via Topband wrote:
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> So this is exactly where I started the topic - soon heaven will come
> on earth :-))))

No, FT8 has provided a way to compensate for the 20 dB in increased
noise floor over the last 40 years.

I was around in the late 1970's and early 1980s with a simple 1/4 wave
sloper and short Beverage antennas on a couple of suburban acres.  I
know from first hand experience what all the switching power supplies,
plasma displays and sloppy power line maintenance has done to the noise
level on 160 and 80.  Even if I had multiple RX antennas on my current
five acre suburban plot, I could not come close (DXCC #50 and second
not on the east coast) to what I accomplished before we were allowed
high power on 160.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 2/19/2024 3:42 PM, uy0zg via Topband wrote:
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> "Like it or not, FT8 has been a boon to many DXers with limited antenna
>> situations and noisy locations."
> 
> So this is exactly where I started the topic - soon heaven will come on 
> earth :-))))
> In the future, there may be no need to build antennas at all...
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> So friends, we should be happy and not nervous :-)))
> 
> ---
> Nick, UY0ZG
> http://www.topband.in.ua
> 
> Joe Subich, W4TV писал(а) 2024-02-19 22:29:
>> On 2/19/2024 3:10 PM, Saulius Zalnerauskas wrote:
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>>> After, I found few QSOs with me, just checked few known call signs in
>>> their LOG, found also same.
>> Unlike the official WSJTX software, some third party variations will
>> log a QSO every time it sends an acknowledgement (RR73) for a report.
>> If the calling ("hound") station does not hear the acknowledgement
>> and sends his report again, the third party software is too "dumb"
>> and treats the repeated report as another QSO.  When this happens
>> the DXPedition can rack up multiple QSOs - generally one minute apart.
>>
>> This is a problem of sloppy programming on a noisy band ... not DXers
>> who are intentionally making multiple QSOs.
>>
>> Like it or not, FT8 has been a boon to many DXers with limited antenna
>> situations and noisy locations.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>    ... Joe, W4TV