A typical CW guy will hear FT8 or JT65 as a kinda whiny wobbly intermittent carrier. And will probably think it’s just some neighborhood switching power supply noise. He won’t CQ right on top of it (because he wants to hear a DX respondent) but he will have no problem firing up 500 Hz away.
But the digital guys e.g. FT8 have 2khz wide filters. So there is a fundamental assymetry here. Tim N3QE Sent from my VAX-11/780 > On Nov 28, 2017, at 10:50 PM, Wes Stewart <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote: > > So what's the protocol when a CW man checks a frequency, hears nothing, sends > a couple of QRL? and hears nothing and begins to run stations. Then sometime > later a guy running an imaginary mode...oops...sorry, FT8 shows up and wants > to park on the CW man's frequency? Who is to blame? I'll answer my own > question: the FT8 guy who is QRMing an occupied frequency. > > Besides the FT8 guys can always resort to JTAlert to QSO via text messaging > as one west African station apparently tried to do with me. > > Wes N7WS > > >> On 11/28/2017 10:45 AM, Bryon Paul Veal NØAH wrote: >> There were ops all over the FT8 segments, refused to even try and work them >> and some were some pretty rare mults for CQWWCW...gentleman agreements are >> of the past.....sucks >> >> PAUL. N0aH >> > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband