Asked around on ON4KST and no-one has any strong view Lot of stations setting up skeds on 70.154 so would say unless there is a dev issue then for FT8 Region 1 it would be beneficial to set default in table to 70.154
73’s Tom GM8MJV (IO85) On 30 Jan 2019, at 16:21, Tom Melvin <t...@tkrh.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks for looking Bill > > OK on SA bandplan - looking at 4m allocations - I _doubt_ will get a freq > that suits all. > > Lets see if there is any feedback from other 4m users. > > > > 73’s > > Tom > GM8MJV (IO85) > > > > > > On 30 Jan 2019, at 13:12, Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: > >> On 30/01/2019 12:53, Tom Melvin wrote: >>> All >>> >>> Region 1 - UK >>> >>> While in the freq area - 70 Mhz - it’s set as 70.100 for FT8 >>> >>> However as this is not in the German allocation 99.9% of the FT8 4m >>> activity is centred around 70.154. Also 70.100 is right on the boundary of >>> the RSGB band Plan for ‘Personal Beacons’. >>> >>> I see MSHV (which is popular over here due to the extra modes and is aimed >>> more at 50Mhz and above) has 4m FT8 preset at 70.154. Googling 70.100 and >>> 70.154 all the web pages refer to 70.154 as FT8 freq - yes the odd proviso >>> that varying countries have different allocations so may never have one >>> freq that fits all on 70. >>> >>> I would seem (IMHO) to have all the FT8 supported packages to have the same >>> frequency to save confusion once the Es session starts up. >>> >>> Yes I know any one can edit the frequency table but half the users don’t >>> seem to know what the ‘Settings’ option actually does and where it is. >>> >>> >>> 73’s >>> >>> Tom >>> GM8MJV (IO85) >> Tom, >> >> I consulted with some regular users of WSJT modes on 4m and was promised >> that they would get back to me with a best option for a 4m working frequency >> in IARU Region 1. They did not get back to me and I am still waiting. If >> 70.154 is the de facto working frequency in Region 1 then I will happily >> change the default in WSJT-X. >> >> One thing that should be considered is compatibility with the South African >> band plan which appears to have 70.150 - 70.200 allocated to digital FM >> modes that would not interact well with FT8. >> >> Comments from regular 4m digi-mode operators welcome. >> >> 73 >> Bill >> G4WJS. >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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