First, This is an awesome addition to FT8 capability. It works great on the hound end, and having up to 9 streams on the fox end is amazing. The best part is the verification, that is a home run. Thank you to all on the team for an amazing effort.
Second, an observation. I have been watching N5J on multiple bands as they work this new mode (and have worked them on all my active bands on FT8). I noticed that the first time success rate for them completing a QSO seems to be lower than on standard Fox/Hound, they have 2, 3 or more retransmits of the S/N and quite a few that drop off because they don't appear to decode a response even when the S/N they send is well above -10. And, as a result this is lowering their successful QSO rate. I am wondering if this has to do with the fact that the hound frequency is not shifted and that there is the potential for much more interference from other signals on and around the hound frequency. Here is STX even my waterfall can get quite crowded with strong signals overlapping. I can't imagine what they see!! Don't know if that is having an impact but just my thought! Thanks again for an awesome job. Tom Hauer, K0YA ARES Emergency Coordinator Blanco, Burnet, Llano Counties ARRL ARES District 8, STX Section TDEM RACES District 12-053 319 551-9788 rdrnr...@gmail.com PO Box 1522 (mailing ADR) 11700 E FM 1431 R37 Marble Falls, Tx 78654 EM00wn Latitude: 30.568805 Longitude: -98.140287
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