With the poor propagation conditions at my QTH (apparently, elsewhere too), manual CW was the best performer. But, WSJT-X/FT8 was a close second. I made ~20 FT8 contacts and think FT8 shows real promise for Field Day use.
FT8 got through much better than SSB phone and FLDIGI decoded CW, RTTY, PSK and MFSK (copying the 40m, 200mi distant, Maritime Museum Sunday messages - RTTY came through best, BTW). The main problems were logging of exchange, inflexibility in setting up FT8 messaging, operator inexperience and not enough FT8 operators. Short of making a special Field Day operational mode in WSJT, I think logging would be greatly helped if WSJT-X would automatically put any part of the message info not already having a defined field in the comments field (this might be nice for general use too). And, message flexibility could be much improved by making all the tab 1 messages over-writable (like the current single drop-down setup) and changing the “next” column targets to be selectors of what messages will be not sent (skipped) in a tx cycle. Operator experience/improvement, and having more of them in the contest, just takes time. Al Pawlowski, K6AVP Los Osos, CA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
