Regarding the use of FT4 during FD, here is the comment from Glenn Anderson, WB5TUF, who is responsible for setting up the RTTY and FT8 digital modes.
Nizar From: Glenn Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 3:50 PM To: NIzar Mullani; 'Robie Elms' Subject: Re: FW: [tdxs-list] Performance of KK5W Mega Field Days over five years As far as I know, ft4 will not be released for use in the June vhf or field day contests. The rc5 software has a kill switch that executes in early June. I am planning to use ft8 for this year's event. -------- Original message -------- From: NIzar Mullani <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: 5/6/19 15:34 (GMT-06:00) To: 'Robie Elms' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, 'Glenn Anderson' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: FW: [tdxs-list] Performance of KK5W Mega Field Days over five years Robie or Glenn, I am not an expert on FT8 or FT4. Can you please comment on Wes’s comments regarding FT4? I was under the impression that Fox and Hounds mode was not allowed for FD. Nizar From: Wes Whiddon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 3:17 PM To: NIzar Mullani Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [tdxs-list] Performance of KK5W Mega Field Days over five years At the risk of hijacking your post, Nizar, I’m wondering about a few things. First, the upcoming FT4 “practice” session this Friday at 0000 UTC is supposed to break in the mode for contesting. Actually, if you tune 14080 there are already a ton of signals there and I’ve been working lots of stations using that mode. So, I think the practice session has already started. Second, does anyone know what the exchange will be during that time? As it stands now, most everyone is just sending signal reports as per FT8. Interestingly enough, if someone replies to your CQ with an RTTY contest exchange i.e 589 TX, the software asks you if you want to jump into the RTTY contest mode similar to FT8 Fox and Hounds. When you do, it’s possible to work multiple stations as if you were the fox. Third, since the final version of FT4 will be announced in June, I’m thinking this could be the preferred digital mode for FD. That is assuming some type of FD exchange is developed similar to FT8. Hopefully things will smooth out before the end of next month. Wes, N5WW P.S. This is just my humble opinion but from what I have seen with FT4, I think it might upstage FT8. Nowadays we all want instant gratification and six seconds is a lot shorter than the interminable twelve you have to hold your breath for with FT8. From: NIzar Mullani <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2019 14:58 To: Wes Whiddon <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [tdxs-list] Performance of KK5W Mega Field Days over five years I thought you may be interested in how the KK5W Mega Field Day has performed during the last five years. These numbers were taken from the 3830Scores web site. While FD has always been about community service and promotion of ham radio, hams are encouraged to teach about ham radio, antennas and operation of radios. ARRL specifically encourages ham radio operators to make as many QSO’s as possible during the 24 hours of operation, almost like a fun contest. The table below shows the QSO’s and Points for KK5W during the last five years. KK5W has done well in the past. Let’s see if we can improve on our score this year while having fun doing it. YEAR QSO’S POINTS 2014 (8A) 3763 13,374 2015 (8A) 4263 17,502 2016 (8A) 3173 13,886 2017 (8A) 3433 14,058 2018 (10A) 3003 13,159 Nizar
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