A great summary of my feelings.
Wes N7WS
On 2/1/2019 4:03 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
Bill just about summarized my feelings. I get no satisfaction from modes
where I can't even hear anything
in the speaker. I love that technology is marching forward, BUT I want to
be there with it.
I am with CW and SSB and to a much lesser degree RTTY (I do a vy small
amount of RTTY (maybe 2-3% of my contesting a year is RTTY)..but even with
RTTY I'm involved, tuning signals, adjusting filters, guessing callsigns
when the software won't quite get it.
The one thing I don't like about FT-8, is that on 6m I can (sometimes) call
my guts out on CW or SSB and not work anyone (even though prop is there),
whereas up the band there are FT-8 signals all piled on top of one another.
Same for 160m I guess.
It's partially generational. Give me DX "now" and don't make me work for it
at all (so says the masses).
I'll stop there before I get into real trouble, hi !
Mike VE9AA
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