Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Adrian
Jim is economic on quoting callsigns, The VK4 is myself VK4TUX, I have been testing FST4-300 will be back on FST4-60 tonight from ; 12:00 UTC till 15:00 UTC, which is 10:00pm to 1:00 am AEST here. I work 1837.5 + 2K TX/RX mark I will probably test FST4-300 after a FST4-60 session with N6SS,

Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Mack K4AO
4 on 160m (Jim Brown) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 19:51:44 -0500 From: Jim Miller To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I've been looking at FST4 as a possibility for g

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Mike Waters
When anyone posts here about FST4 —or any other digital mode— *please* include 160digi...@groups.io as a recipient. Thank you! :-) 73, Mike W0BTU On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 6:52 PM Jim Miller wrote: > I've been looking at FST4 as a possibility for getting some more difficult > new ones on 160. >

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Brian Hamerski via Topband
So far I’m impressed with the mode from here in AZ. Worked into IL at 0100, pretty early for out west here. Getting spots on east coast well after their sunrise., VK4TUX is on every day starting about 1300, he is running at 300seconds! Many folks (me included) have called him but I

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Jim Miller
First test Feb 10, 0100z, Dial freq 1837.5. DF1500 FST4-60 for a fine tone freq of 1839. R7LV on the other end. I know this is too early for W6/7 but I'd like to get a first try without staying up too late. Stay safe! jim ab3cv On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:53 PM Jim Miller wrote: > I'll post

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Jim Miller
I'll post any skeds for others to participate as well. stay safe! jim ab3cv On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:51 PM Jim Miller wrote: > I've been looking at FST4 as a possibility for getting some more difficult > new ones on 160. > > From Table 7 in >

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-08 Thread Jim Brown
On 2/8/2021 9:43 PM, James Wolf wrote: I'm not understanding the time setting on FST4. Does the station calling CQ set the time duration of FST4 and the receiving station automatically detect that time setting and mimic it, or do both stations need to start with the correct setting? I'm not

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-08 Thread James Wolf
in the documentation. Jim - KR9U -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces+jbwolf=comcast@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 8:03 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m On 2/8/2021 4:51 PM, Jim Miller wrote: > I'd l

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-08 Thread Jim Brown
On 2/8/2021 4:51 PM, Jim Miller wrote: I'd like to find a partner in EU or AS who would sked with me to do some FST4 tests on 160. And I'll be happy to be QRV from California. A VK4 has been active, my rig has decoded him several times (while I was sleeping) off the back of my EU Beverage

Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-08 Thread Jim Miller
I've been looking at FST4 as a possibility for getting some more difficult new ones on 160. >From Table 7 in https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.4.0-rc1.html#SLOW_MODES you can see that FST4 with 60 second periods is 3db more sensitive than JT65 and 7db more