On 21/11/17 16:05, Libor Holouš wrote: > According this theme I'd like to ask about expanding the band possibility. > FT8 seems to be very popular these days and there are some DXpeditions > operating there, so 2 kHz is not enough space for all that traffic. The > extreme is 40 and 20m, but when propagation allows, the other bands too (on > higher bandsis not possible to see most of EU traffic, from DX side it must > be crazy :-)
It's easy enough to see most of the EU traffic on 80m FT8. It's wall to wall. As I write, it's only just going dark and most of the available slots are already full of EU stations. I left my Rx on last night, and between 2100 and 0900 UTC it received vast numbers of stations in Europe and North America - and nothing else, apart from a single station in Costa Rica. There's DX around, because I can see it on pskreporter, but it's buried under the stronger EU and NA signals. It was much easier to work DX on 80m FT8 in the the early days before it became too popular for its own good. For CW/SSB, the 80m (and 40m) bandplans reserve a small space for intercontinental working. Maybe a second FT8 frequency, 2 kHz up or down from the main one, reserved for intercontinental working, would help. Perhaps 3571 kHz. I've tried to raise this subject before, but got no takers. 73, Richard G4DYA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
