Hi Mike,
On 7/27/2018 8:15 PM, Mike Lavelle K6ML wrote:
Hi, Joe and team...
I think the ver. 2 FT8/MSK supporting six digit grids is a great idea.
Now that you're willing to encode six-digit subgrids and have a bit more
payload,
I'd like to request support of six-digit subgrids for the NA UHF and
microwave contests. ...
Thanks for your message suggesting possible FT8/MSK144 features that
could be interesting for NA UHF and microwave contests.
We're quite aware of the required exchanges in these contests... but it
seems to me that the capabilities of FT8 and MSK144 are not well matched
to the needs for these bands. Are you aware of any significant use of
FT8 or MSK144 on 222 MHz and higher? I am not. In the past I have used
JT65 on 222 and 432 MHz to gather a few hard-to-work multipliers in VHF
contests. In those cases (troposcatter, very weak signals) JT65 is
probably a better mode than FT8. (Six-digit grids can always be
exchanged, where needed, in free-text messages.)
Are you really suggesting the use of FT8 at 10+ GHz? Have you tried it?
-- 73, Joe, K1JT
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