I think FT-8 great idea, but how many can do it is a question, along with the fact that propagation is much better because of capabilities of FT-8. As many know, I am operating with severe restrictions on a balcony though it is 200-ft high. I am a serious user FT-8 and FT-4 and have over 100 countries confirmed on QRZ (picture of my antenna “farm” on QRZ by the way) and 95 confirmed on LoTW. No way possible without FT-8. It would be really nice to try FT-8 on 2m and use PSK Reporter. Would be interesting.
Chris Luppens - KG5BBF > On Sep 21, 2022, at 7:36 AM, KJ Anderson via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Any interest in automating this using FT-8 on 2M at a designated time before > or after? You could automatically build prop maps from PSK Reporter. It > assumes you’ve got a rig that can do it though. Now that we’re somewhat out > of the spate of afternoon lightning storms, I’d be happy to leave my rig > listening and reporting to PSK Reporter on 2M, if there’s interest. > > ------------------------------------------------- > KJ Anderson > 253-380-2636 > www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd > > From: BVARC <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mark Brantana via BVARC > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 10:27 PM > To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]>; NARS The Club > <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Brantana <[email protected]> > Subject: [BVARC] Propagation Exercise this Thursday > > Propagation Exercise this Thursday > > Here are just two great reasons to test your radio range with us tonight > Thursday, September 22: > > This is going to be interesting. I will be running things from Illinois. > Yes, Illinois. I will ask someone to clear the frequency for the test, so > that person will be NCO for the evening. Other than that I will work things > the way we usually do. Obviously I won’t be able to hear anyone from here. > Join on Thursday. > > What could go wrong…? > > I look forward joing everyone on Zoom. Hope to see you there… > SimplexHouston.com > > PLEASE MAKE SPECIAL NOTE - We ask participants to log in by Zoom before the > net, so that we can maintain radio silence except for the one person at a > time who is being tested. (If you haven’t been with us before, join us and > see what this is all about. Everything is explained during the Zoom meeting.) > > INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO - Take a look at the instructional video Scott produced! > This will help everyone understand how our Propagation Net is currently > conducted. > > Key Information: > The Check-in and Instructional Zoom meeting will be at 6:15PM. > The Zoom link and other information is found on our link above. > The Propogation Exercise will begin promptly 7:00 PM. > Simplex frequencies are 146.540 MHz (Alternative if needed 147.540 MHz). > > I hope you can be with us to learn what your 2-m station will do. We look > forward to your joining us. > > Contact Mark - [email protected] > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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