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[uy0zg]

Of course, the development of technological progress is necessary and 
interesting. But there is one thing..... - you cannot use progress to 
destroy what thousands of radio amateurs spent their lives on. Do you 
understand what I'm talking about ?

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Nick, UY0ZG
http://www.topband.in.ua

Jim Brown писал(а) 2024-02-19 23:11:
> Also totally false assumptions about digital modes, including FT8. The 
> modes invented by Nobel laureate K1JT, and expanded on by the team 
> responsible for WSJT-X software, are widely used on VHF and UHF for 
> moonbounce with the same sort of arrays used in the past with CW, 
> providing about 10 dB signal to noise advantage. Likewise for meteor 
> scatter. On 6M, I use FT8 extensively for weak signal ionospheric 
> propagation, and MSK144 for meteor scatter.
> 
> During the most recent solar minimum, I used FT8 extensively for a 
> couple of seasons to extend my country count by about 1,000 miles on 
> topband. Thanks to the drastic intrusion of electronically generated 
> noise over the last decade, I've heard only about eight EU stations on 
> CW in the past 7-8 seasons, and only two have heard me. When I first 
> moved to Northern California in 2006, I could work EU a few nights a 
> year, and with the same TX and RX antennas that I still have.
> 
> What makes my path to EU so difficult is that it's both long and 
> through so much of the polar region. It is FAR easier for me to work AF 
> on topband (when there are stations there to work), even much longer 
> distances, like ZS.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> On 2/19/2024 12:42 PM, uy0zg via Topband wrote:
>> 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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