Well said. Thank you.
From: Topband on behalf of Cecil Acuff
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 7:06 PM
To: DXer
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: FT8 vs other modes - my numbers.
Yeah the elitist attitude of CW being the only thing that’s real
Yeah the elitist attitude of CW being the only thing that’s real that seems to
permeate this list at times is quite stale.
I work CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8whatever gets the contact in the log...it’s all
radiotake the radio away or have Mother Nature take the path down and
nothing gets
Tim,
You wrote in your reply to Mike, W0MU:
>...you are buying into a myth that both supporters and detractors of
FT8 perpetuate. The myth that FT8 is superior for DX'ing, to other modes.
With all due respect, I think you are 'buying' into the 'red herring'
that some are using to 'bad
Tim, My take on the popularity is explained this way. FT8 has an SNR
advantage over CW of around 5 dB, PSK31 - about 10 dB and SSB of more
than 15 dB. So for a given set of link conditions, FT8 result in a Q in
the log more often than the other modes.
Add in the poor prop conditions and
Mike, you are buying into a myth that both supporters and detractors of FT8
perpetuate. The myth that FT8 is superior for DX'ing, to other modes.
2018 was my "year of FT8". I participated in several on-air WSJT new
feature tests including DXpedition mode testing. I spent the vast majority
of my
FT8 was not created to be a rate mode. It is a weak signal mode. For
those of us a long way from the East Coast and salt it allows us to work
stations that we probably had very little shot of working without FT8.
Productive in what way? To work new ones? Check! DXing is not
necessarily
There are some untrue things being assumed here, as if they are advantages
to FT8 that make FT8 be a more productive mode for DX'ing.
In fact FT8 is the least productive of all modes I used in 2018. And I was
on FT8 a lot in 2018. I tried hard to be productive in FT8 - measured in
Q's per hour,
