Exactly Ed, Just as SSB did to AM and digital modes are doing to RTTY. Soon it may be computers working computers with minimal operator supervision. Right now on FT-8 when statins call my CQ they are answered and sent a signal report automatically and the logging is done with a single point and click. CW Maybe Kim will allow a fully automated FT-8 application running 24/7 on the 800-foot high rise building on downtown Pyongyang. Still, CW, depending on the operator, seems to have the advantage. Except during a contest, most of the 160-meter DX has moved to 1840 and more will follow assuredly.
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:28 PM Edward Sawyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Such is the new trend. No offense to KV4FZ whatsoever but if you provide > the easy path.most will take it. The only way to affect the "easy way out" > is to not provide it. > > > > I remember year's ago doing CQ WW CW ABLP as C6ARS in 2001. I ended the > contest on 15M running a couple of hundred JAs. I thought, this is amazing > because I am just as loud from W1 and I couldn't imagine having so many JA > stations call. Clearly they are much more DXers than full contesters - > most > of them. Still feel that way today. I have heard piles of JAs calling > right before a contest only to dry up in the contest. > > > > Its fascinating that the above has now shifted to FT8 vs the more > traditional modes in just DXing. Herb, it would be a very interesting > experiment to shift to CW mid pile-up and see if the group stays with you > to > catch the DX opening or does it dwindle to nothing. I am guessing it goes > to nothing despite the opening. But would love to hear. > > > > FT8 is changing the "easiness factor" in DXing. And like technology > assisted driving, once that genie is out of the bottle it ain't never goin > back. Just try and find an actual stick shift in a new car - almost > impossible. Why? It doesn't mesh with the computer driving the car. > > > > 73 > > > > Ed N1UR > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
