No! FT8 is WAY MORE sensitive! (~8db)
FT4 is awesome for MORE contacts (i.e. contests). I’m sticking with FT8 for QUALITY. 73 de W8NET Miles / “Gene” Secretary, Portage County Amateur Radio Service (PCARS) 3905 Century Club - Master #47 DV2/W8NET in the Philippines Licensed since 1974 > On Jul 27, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Roy Gould <roygou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Gentlemen: > > Bandwidth and weak signal performance are important considerations when > comparing the relative merits of FT8 and FT4. Perhaps an even more important > consideration is which of these is the most fun to operate. > > I have been using FT4 since the release of 2.1.0 and find that I like it a > lot better than FT8. It is twice as fast and features such as Best S+P are > great. I have abandoned FT8 in favor of FT4. I anticipate that others will > come to the same conclusion and eventually FT4 will replace FT8. > > I do not like having FT4 on the same frequency as W1AW (7.0475 MHz). I often > copy the code practice and the bulletins from W1AW. I do not usually copy > these CW broadcasts by ear. I use them for code practice for CW programs such > as Fldigi and CW Decoder. I have these programs copy the bulletins for me as > if this was a digital mode signal. I would like to be able to receive W1AW > without interference from any other nearby signals. > > It does not seem to me that there is any reason that FT4 and FT8 cannot > operate together in the same channel. If this is so, then why have separate > channels for them? > > Therefore, I propose that the default 40-m frequency for FT4 be 7.074 MHz. > > What do you think? > > 73, Roy, W7IDM > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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