[VHFcontesting] How to order

Peter Laws plaws0 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 13:02:05 EST 2018


On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Keith Morehouse
<w9rm at calmesapartners.com> wrote:
> ...or they should count for MORE because they take so bloody long to make.
>
> When the band is open well, I can make 4-5 QSOs per minute on SSB.  The
> absolute MINIMUM time for a FT8 QSO is 45 seconds and, in reality, it will


You clearly missed the DXMap site over the weekend - there was a VE6
making FT8 QSOs on 2m throughout the western US.  It may take a long
time (like communicating with submerged subs) but that's how and why
it works.

If we're going to do distance scoring like in the 222 and Up, we need
to somehow adjust for mode else everyone will just use the latest mode
from the Nobel laureate.



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