Good point, Wes.
If you have a really good station on both ends, SSB would be a lot
faster and more fun in my opinion. I used to get sked requests from
K9NS for contest points on 50 and 144 a few years back. We used SSB and
not digi mode. In September it took about 1 minute to complete with him
on 144 MHz. That was with a 20 dB antenna on each end and KWs. You
spent more time pushing buttons on FSK-441 . SSB was effortless. I have
not tried MSK144 yet. If you have a marginal setup with less than 1500
w and a big antenna, the digi modes make sense for a faster QSO. Still,
I think SSB is more exciting. CW needs pretty high speed operating
ability for manual xmissions, but that is just as exciting if you can
swing it. I can copy at about 35 if I am looking for calls. I think
that is a good start for CW! 45 is better.
The most fun I ever had in ham radio was working SSB random contacts
during a Perseids peak, and then of course the big Leonids shower back
in 2001 or 2002. I miss that stuff now.
Dave K1WHS
On 12/5/2018 7:44 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
Why not just use CW (or even SSB)?
Disclaimer. I have zero experience with 6M MS. That said, I have
confirmed QSOs with every continental state west of the Mississippi
and a few east on 2M MS (or tropo) :-)
Wes N7WS
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