Topband: ZS1C last night (Monday night in NA).

[Jim Brown]

On 10/14/2025 9:19 AM, Ron Spencer via Topband wrote:
>   the thrill is, at least for me, much greater than when working someone using ft8. With cw the brain has to do all the processing piecing the bits together to make sense of it.

Congrats on your QSO, Ron, from a QTH with little or no noise. But you 
might think very differently if you were surrounded by solar systems and 
other electronic noise sources in the direction of three of your four 
full-wavelength Beverages. I've been primarily a CW op for all of my 70 
years in ham radio, but I'll take those FT8 QSOs any day. The mode has 
the same 10 dB advantage over CW that CW has over SSB.

73, Jim K9YC