15 QSOs in about 2 hours of operating, just under half with European
stations, all on 20m. There was an MFSK-16 station QRV that
threatened my sanity; it wasn't the QRM, it was listening to 2 hours
of that moronic "music" that made me feel like Red Buttons in "the
Longest Day". MFSK-16 definitely deserves its own band segment,
preferably with padded soundproof walls. Too bad Pactor III doesn't
sound like that; Winlink would have had their own private band
segment years ago.
Patrick, the newest version of DXKeeper provides a sub-mode field;
it'd be nice if MultiPSK would log things like the Olivia tone
constellation there: APP_DXKEEPER_SUBMODE. Perhaps Simon and I can
convince the ADIF development community to make this a standard field.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In [email protected], "Andrew O'Brien"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Of the 15 or so logs received so far, the comments appear to be.
>
> The bands (40 and 20M) were in very poor conditions
>
> Both Olivia and JT65A contests were considered "tough". Activity
was
> , according to early reports, higher in the JT65A mode .
>
> Several JT65A WSJT users had difficulty handing a "pile-up " (There
> are some advanced features within WSJT where you can decode several
> signals at once, but perhaps people do not know this).
>
> Some folks mistook their local time for UTC time.
>
> Several ZL's, VKs, and JA's on the JT65A contest
>
>
>
> As for the comments that the contest was "tough", that was expected.
> The experimental contests take a lot of patience.
>
> JT65A as implemented in WSJT is not at all designed for
conventional
> contesting. Today's results are helpful for analyzing how contests
> with JT65A could be conducted in the future (if at all!).
>
> Olivia should have been easier, I did see 4 QSO's taking place in
> Olivia 500/8 at the same time on 40M, some die-hards stuck with
500/4
> !
>
>
> Andy K3UK
>
