I think FT8 and, more significantly, FT8's future iterations will add to ham radio in ways that aren't being considered.
For example, adding an extra layer to the computer time sync requirement of future modes (and with those computers being on the 'net) could allow DFing of each station worked. Or the exact propagation path could be made known via the time delay in working stations at known locations - was it direct path, LP, gray line or something else? Imagine that info being plotted on a map in almost-real-time by a future version of WSJT. Opens up a lot of possibilities in learning propagation while "our computers work each other". For those who are inherently against this mode and the automation behind it, I don my flamesuit and say that we are hams, not CBers. It doesn't have to be about human QSO's and human contacts - we can also engage in modes that allow the vagaries of propagation and other aspects of radio to be investigated in ways that aren't possible with current modes of communication. John AE5X ______________________________________________________________ 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]
