I agree. We have a Club member who lives in a townhouse and who became a ham because their Dad was a ham.
This ham literally has 100W and a wire dipole, only half of which is outside - and is in the log at KH1/KH7Z with a 20M FT8 QSO. Amateur Radio is a technological pursuit. The convergence of radio, computer and software technologies to create the digi-modes was probably inevitable. If FT8 helps interest more young people in Amateur Radio, I’m all for it. -- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!" > On Jul 3, 2018, at 1:24 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <[email protected]> wrote: > > How is it any different than the RTTY setups used for DXpeditions that would > do essentially the same thing, listen over a wide range and stack the calls > heard? FT8 just allows them to complete 1 to 5 contacts at one time. That > to me is pretty amazing! There is still plenty of skill in working FT8 if > the goal is to get in and get out quick just like any more. Hey if you have > all day to work someone chances are you will get them sooner or later. > > The cool part about this and the most important part is this mode is allowing > people with really marginally poor stations to be able to actually get on Ham > Radio and work people and work DX! It has to be exciting for them! > > Try to put yourself in their shoes. It is a whole new world! We need more > activity, more active hams and maybe FT8 will be a building block to get more > people in. I would hope this is a good thing! > > W0MU > > >> On 7/3/2018 2:10 PM, ANDY DURBIN wrote: >> I have been using WSJT-X since before version 1.0 was made available. I was >> also an early adopter of JT9 and FT8. I have enjoyed using JT65, JT9, and >> FT8 for HF and 6 m QSO. Using DXpedition mode to work KH1 was a different >> experience. I felt that the operator had been taken much too far "out of >> the loop". I'm glad I made more KH1 QSO using CW than with FT8 and I found >> them much more satisfying. >> >> FT8 DXPedition mode is certainly not for everyone but if it was the only way >> I could make a QSO with KH1 I'd have been glad to have it in my log. KH1 >> was DX 200 worked CW in 4 years. That was nice and only the magic of >> propagation was involved. >> >> 73, >> Andy k3wyc >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
