Note: Below I refer to the various modes developed by K1JT and his team as JT modes.
Yes the JT modes should have their own categories for awards and NOT be mixed with traditional modes. Reason being that all the JT modes (FT4/8, JT65, JT9, FST4 and others) are unlike traditional modes. In traditional modes (CW, SSB, RTTY, Pactor, Amtor etc) the operator or machine must actually copy the call sign of the station being worked. In the JT modes with weak signals the program copies a portion of the call and completes the call by comparing the partial call to a call sign data base. In JTDX that call sign data base file ALLCALL7 presently contains more than 93,000 calls and is periodically increasing. WSJTx has a similar call sign data base. A curious op could copy the data base file, rename it, and delete all but a few calls in the original. Then see how well the JT modes copy weak signals. My hunch is they wouldn't copy much better than a good CW op but that is TBD. The transition from AM to SSB was quite different in that the two modes were identical in what they achieved, two way chatter back and forth between operators. It was clear that SSB would prevail. That useless carrier had to go. All that being stated this op has worked JT65, FT8 and now FST4 almost exclusively outside of contests for ~2 years. That's where the action is for better or worse. 73 back to 28074 Pres, N6SS > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 15:50:45 +0100 > From: Hans Hjelmstr?m <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Topband: CQ Zones > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > AGREE 100 % with you Martin /OK1RR. > > This FT 8 PC to PC playgame is just killing our hobby,at least as I see it. > > Take care and enjoy,and I am SURE ARRL will never listen to your > feelings. > > Hans SM6CVX > > 9 mar 2021 kl. 15:36 skrev Martin Kratoska <[email protected]>: > > > > Oh, FT8 should be proclaimed as illegal for DXCC (WAZ, WAS etc.) in mixed > > categories. > > This "mode" should be counted completely separated from traditional modes > > like CW or SSB. > > > > 73, > > Martin, OK1RR > > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
