Serious weak-signal ops would be using CW, so who cares what the FT8 guys are
doing? :-)
On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 02:37:00 PM MST, Jim Brown
<j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
On 11/28/2023 5:05 AM, Dietmar Kasper wrote:
> A resolution at the July ARRL Board of Directors meeting pointed to
> “growing concern over fully automated contacts being made and claimed”
> for contest and DXCC credit. The rules now require that each claimed
> contact include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on
> both sides of the contact. Initiation of a contact may be either local
> or remote.
They might want to start enforcing this with several of their midwest
SCMs who have been running nearly fulltime BOTs on 6M FT8 for well over
a year. They have been complained about to the League by serious
weak-signal 6M ops.
73, Jim K9YC
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