Please also give credit for FT-8 occupying only a few Khz'a around 1840 and compare this to a Top Band CW contest where it is at times difficult to find a clear spot from 1800 to 1950 and even higher. Could you imagine an AM Topband contest as 10 stations each 6 to 10 Hhz wide would pretty much do it? My Globe Scout would not have stood a change. Herb. KV4FZ
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 3:40 PM Edward Sawyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jay. The IP address is actually tied to your device and is picked up > and identified on the internet. My point was that the machine deserves the > credit for the DXCC. That’s all. > > > > I would totally agree with you that if all this was about was RTTY > morphing to FT8 then its not very different. However, FT8 is pulling on > other modes clearly based on this dialog. > > > > At the end of the day, some people care whether they are part of the > action, and some people don’t. Those of us that do seem to have a pretty > universal distaste for FT-8. > > > > 73 > > > > Ed N1UR > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:35 PM > *To:* Edward Sawyer; 'Herbert Schoenbohm' > *Cc:* 'TopBand List' > *Subject:* Re: Topband: JA's came in droves today on 160 > > > > *Ed – the “IP address” and the internet have nothing to do with the FT8 > mode other than that’s how you initially download the WSJT-X program...so > why is the transition from RTTY to FT8 any different than the transition > from AM to SSB again ?* > > * jay ny2ny* > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
