Carl,
you tell that to Joe Taylor, who himself has said he uses the power it
takes to make the contact, especially on EME and Meteor Scatter. It is
not a low power mode. For some people using 500w from California
results in a - 19 report from Israel. That is a weak signal.
You use what it takes to make the contact.
Neil, KN3ILZ
On 1/2/2019 5:56 PM, Carl J. Denbow wrote:
While it's legal to run maximum power on FT8, or any other weak signal
mode, it's certainly not in the spirit of the weak signal mode ethos
Most weak-signal mode enthusiasts pride themselves on the worldwide
contacts they can make with low wattage. Many feel that 100 watts is
QRO on these modes. Personally, I usually run about 35 watts, but I've
had QSOs with stations in far-flung regions running power in the
milliwatt range with a dipole up 20 feet. That's the real attraction
of these modes to many. And, until the advent of FT8, you heard very
few stations running more than 100 watts on these modes. FT8 seems to
have attracted a whole different crowd. Some of these, I think, view
FT8 as a "the new RTTY" and operate according to the accepted
operating procedures of that mode. I view this trend as very
unfortunate.
73,
Carl
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