My suggestions were specifically about the DXp mode, not FT8 in general.
..and it isn't a popularity contest, it's about observing the existing
watering holes.
PSK31 is in use, it will recover somewhat when more people get bored with
"wham bam , thankyou ma'am" operating style.
I enjoy both FT8 and PSK31, it need not be an either/or...but again, I am
only referring to DXp mode at this point, nothing else.
Do DXp INSIDE the current agreed upon FT8 frequencies, and then sort it out
amongst the FT8 users, instead of foisting it on others to live with.
Hasan
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:14 AM, Black Michael via wsjt-devel <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Everybody needs to realize a little math here.
>
> In the last 2 hours there were 488 PSK reports showing on pskreporter.
> Compare that to 516,312 FT8 reports.
>
> 516,312/488 = 1058 times more.
>
> Now...let's say the odds of finding a bad actor in all those PSK reports
> is 1-in-488 over that 2 hour period. Probably a conservative estimate of
> the # of ops who are operating too much power and causing intermod and
> harmonics....though you may not see them since PSK sensitivity is notably
> less than FT8 plus we're only talking 1 observed problem in 2 hours.
>
> 1-in-488 PSK would mean over 1,000 in FT8 (500 per hour, 8 per minute).
> So the odds of seeing a problem child is greatly enhanced by the simple
> popularity and operating sequence of the mode.
>
> If the ARRL gets 15M, 40M, and 80M opened up to techncians this will only
> get worse.
>
> de Mike W9MDB
>
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