The truly great thing about amateur radio is that there are so very many things that an operator can do. Since I retired and downsized to an apartment with no tower or beam in an urban environment I find myself using those very weak signal modes. Still have the KPA500 and KAT500, but using that kind of power in an apartment is just not "neighbor friendly" so I am saving them in case I decide to move back to a less congested area or find a place I can set up a remote station. In the mean time there are those digital modes that I can get on and make some Qs on. Please do not denigrate these modes because there are a lot of people in similar situations. Yes, I would love to crank up the juice, spin the beam around and pound the green keys in plain old RTTY, but it just ain't happening right now. So let me make a few Qs now and then and remember when I had a "real ham station" making "real contacts". And if you don't like it I don't give a (insert your least favorite term here) what you think. Have a nice day.
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 18:54 Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT < [email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, great, reliable at or below the noise floor, but if all you're > doing is meeting the somewhat arbitrary minimum that defines a QSO, > what's the point? > > I mean seriously, can you even ask about the weather? Just say "hi?" > > Meh. > > I'm fine with typing, but I want a real live person typing back, and if > we can type back and forth for an hour, that's great. > > 73 -- Lynn > > On 7/12/20 2:33 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > > The argument for digital modes like FT8 is that they're reliable at or > below the noise floor, making it possible to work lots of DX even if solar > conditions are very poor. Simplicity of protocol is a side effect of this > design. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
