Just kidding Jim, I exercised several of the WSJT modes some time back
and was amazed at the copy on signals I simply couldn't hear [although
generally, most were strong enough to hear]. With the new synth, I even
got up in the middle of the night to see if I could hear the signals
WSPR was decoding on 474 Kcs, but never heard a peep. The constrained
QSO format of JT65/JT9 and the time it took just wasn't attractive for
me. To each his own.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 7/16/17 10:28 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 7/15/2017 6:58 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
15 sec vs 47 sec is a 68% decrease in QSO time. So, I only have to
wait for 32% of the paint to dry? [:-)
Hi Fred,
I spent a lot of time with FT8 yesterday in CQ VHF, and found it to be
pretty fast paced. I'd say the rate was at least as good as QRP SSB
during a DX contest! I made 47 QSOs yesterday, only one on SSB, none
on CW. The FT8 window was jumping as long as the band was open, and
I'd guess that at least half of the QSOs would not have been possible
on SSB, and many not on CW. And I picked up four new grids.
73, Jim K9YC
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