[VHFcontesting] FT4

[Arliss]

I operated part-time during the CQ contest and found conditions 
to be reasonably good on 6m at the start of the contest. The mode 
distribution for my 6m QSOs was:

SSB --- 135 QSOs
CW  ---   6
MSK144 - 13
FT8 ---  71
FT4 ---  19

My MSK144 total would no doubt have been better if I had gotten 
up early Sunday morning. FT4 was good while it lasted, but after 
an initial flurry of QSOs, I moved to FT8 due to lack of ongoing 
activity on FT4.


73, Arliss  W7XU
     EN13 South Dakota



On 7/23/2020 12:24 PM, Mark Spencer wrote:
> Hi I am curious to hear from anyone who used FT4 during the CQ
> VHF contest.   I don't recall seeing any activity on the 50
> MHz FT4 frequency on my band scope  when I was in CO80 on
> Saturday, but I may have missed some activity.  I did manage
> to detect SSB activity on various odd frequencies such as
> 50.150 and worked stations so I believe I was keeping a
> reasonable eye on things (:
>
> I sort of enjoyed watching the band scope and changing
> frequencies from time to time but it got rather hot inside the
> truck in the sun despite the cool outside temperatures (below
> 20 degrees C) but air conditioning helped at times at the
> expense of a somewhat higher noise floor.
>
> 73
>
> Mark S VE7AFZ