Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread W0MU Mike Fatchett
So why does everyone have to play by your rules and not those of the people giving out the awards?  How about the built in 10 to 15 db advantage of living next to the pond may give?  Remote radio is ok but Digital is not. You get your awards your way, I will get mine mine. 73 W0MU On

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Dave AA6YQ
>>>AA6YQ comments below -Original Message- From: Mark K3MSB [mailto:mark.k3...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 1:28 PM To: Dave AA6YQ Cc: topBand List Subject: Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long) You can’t retract a

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread k8...@alphacomm.net
Hi Steve, Thank you very much for bringing this topic up, and for your summary. The elephant in the room needed addressing. I almost bought the new transceiver I've been wanting this yearuntil I saw the reflector post about the gentleman who "worked 20 new ones this season, and I

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Mark K3MSB
You can’t retract any awards, and I don’t believe you even have to worry about that. Let’s say you have 150 Confirmed on 160M right now using a combination of SSB, CW, FT8 etc. The current single band award would not change – it’s “Mixed” by default. I would envision 3 new awards to come

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread DXer
That's right. Make sure to disable PSKReporter in WSJT-X, and Hamspot.net in JTAlert. This way you won't look bad saying one thing, and doing another. LOL 73 de Vince, VA3VF On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:35 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: > > I know that 3Y0X will have the ability to

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread W0MU Mike Fatchett
a single mode cert. Have a great day, --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy "Actions speak louder than words" 1856 - Abraham Lincoln -- *From:* Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of Nick Maslon - K1NZ <k...@arrl.net> *Sent:* Thursda

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Dave AA6YQ
e- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ireland Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:43 AM To: Topband reflector Subject: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long) G�day Thanks very much to all those who contributed to the thre

Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8?

2017-10-26 Thread Ken Claerbout
Most of you know where my heart is on this one. And there are some good suggestions for keeping the old school modes vibrant. While good intentioned, the idea of splitting up the DXCC award is going to be a wasted effort. I would argue remote operating has already changed the DXCC landscape in

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread k8gg
; with a >> > single mode cert. >> > >> > >> > Have a great day, >> > --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy >> > >> > "Actions speak louder than words" >> > 1856 - Abraham Lincoln >> > >> > >> >

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Tim Shoppa
; Have a great day, > > --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy > > > > "Actions speak louder than words" > > 1856 - Abraham Lincoln > > > > > > ---------- > > *From:* Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread DXer
Mixed, as per one of the definitions: containing a mixture of both favorable and negative elements. FT8 belongs in it, it's a favorable element. LOL 73 de Vince, VA3VF On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Nick Maslon - K1NZ wrote: > Hi Dale, > > My comments were more aimed at the

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Nick Maslon - K1NZ
braham Lincoln > > > -- > *From:* Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of Nick Maslon > - K1NZ <k...@arrl.net> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 26, 2017 8:58 AM > *To:* topband@contesting.com > *Subject:* Re: Topband: A way forwa

Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Dale Putnam
From: Topband <topband-boun...@contesting.com> on behalf of Nick Maslon - K1NZ <k...@arrl.net> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 8:58 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long) I just hav

Topband: A way forward to keep 'old school' modes vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)

2017-10-26 Thread Steve Ireland
G’day Thanks very much to all those who contributed to the thread following my ‘FT8 - the end of 160m old school DXing?’ post. Here is a summary of what appeared in my ‘In Box’. First, special thanks to CJ Johnson WT2P for bravely giving the ‘new school’ perspective and actually taking radio,