Thanks Joe. I heard you brought down the house at FLARC! They appreciated the visit very much. I am a member of that club.
Thank you for your comments on the frequencies. I am going to reach out again to the groups that had contacted me and I'll provide some suggestions. I am enjoying the mode quite a lot. It is an adjustment from FT8 but it seems like it will be a winner. On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 15:06, Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote: > > Hi Ria, > > Good to hear from you! > > On 4/30/2019 14:10, rjai...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Joe, Bill, Steve and team, > > > > I'm getting feedback about the frequency choices for the initial FT4 > > rollout. There is conflict with users because it is so low down in the > > band on 40 meters (7047). The QRP fox hunt (CW) guys are up in arms > > because that's where they operate. Other hams have been complaining to > > their ARRL officials (including me) about the QRM. > > > > I love the FT/JT modes and think that what the WSJT development team > > is doing is absolutely fantastic but I think some more thought has to > > go into where we want these modes to live so we can have peaceful > > coexistence on the bands. > > > > vy 73 > > Ria > Experience shows that it's impossible to select even 1% of a band -- > say, a ~3 kHz slice in a 300 kHz band -- for a new purpose without > stepping on some toes. Experience also shows that nobody wants to help > with this important band-planning task. (Maybe something like a new > ARRL and/or IARU Committee?) > > Finally, our experience shows that sometimes we have to try something, > see how it plays, and then (if necessary) try something else. > > Our frequency choices are not arbitrary -- far from it. We're very > willing to make changes when a balanced assessment shows them desirable. > > FT4 has been on 7047 kHz for all of 24 hours. Not much time, but enough > to make it clear that a better frequency should be found on 40 meters. > > I hope those who experience QRM from FT8 or FT4 will keep in mind that > (by some measures) these modes account for something like 70% of ham > radio activity, world wide, while occupying something like 1-2% of our > allocated HF spectrum. > > Please send us your suggestions for default frequencies for FT4 and/or > other WSJT-X modes, doing your best to find choices acceptable worldwide. > > -- 73, Joe, K1JT -- Ria Jairam, N2RJ Director, Hudson Division ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™ +1.973.594.6275 https://hudson.arrl.org n...@arrl.org _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
