Hi Wes! "Operator skill" ...
Surely you jest ... 73! K0PP On Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 17:44 Wes Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting myself in part from an email to my DX club reflector re: FT8 > > "I think I will set a personal standard, at least for awards purposes, > that 1) I > will be at the controls of the station. 2) I won't count any QSO that > couldn't > have been copied on CW. 3) I won't count any QSO that requires the > software to > have prior knowledge of the two station calls or could not be copied by an > uninterested third party. > > I'm sure there will be critics who declare that I'm an old fogy who is > longing > for the return of spark. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have > worked on the cutting edge of new technologies for years. But, I also > believe > that there should be some value added by way of operator skill." > > Since that time I'm adding 4) If JTAlert pops up with a text message from > my QSO > partner wherein he tells me what he's copied and what I should send next, > I will > not complete the QSO. > > Wes N7WS > > > > On 3/3/2018 4:57 PM, William Levy wrote: > > As an old dog I am sorry to see that FT8 has become all the rage. > > I grew up with a few vacuum tubes and a dipole. AM carrier controlled, 5 > > tube receivers. Loved CW when I had very little. Love SSB with big > antennas > > and towers. > > > > FT8 changes the game. No more rag chews. So this is what DX has become. > No > > big power, no big antennas. Someone will write an app that will tell the > > radio to keep calling cq and log contacts. V.2 of the App will record new > > prefixes and club log it. > > > > I may feel critical as I write this but the future is not mine and all is > > fair in love and war. > > > > Sincerely, Bill N2WL > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
