On 2/18/2022 9:17 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
It should have enhanced the hobby for all of us, especially for us
contesters since almost all of our transmissions come from keypresses in
a logging program anyway.
Over a period of ten years or more, K1JT and his team have developed an
ever expanding suite of software for the exchange of minimal information
a variety of difficult propagation conditions, each of which has its own
challenges. FT8 is only one of those transmission modes. I use their
modes in the manner they intended -- meteor scatter, tropo, ionospheric
scatter, Es, and F2 on 6M; DXpeditions on the HF bands; difficult
circuits on 160M; low power DX on 60M. I've yet to be drawn to HF
contesting with it.
And their suite HAS enhanced the hobby for me a lot, and, I'd guess, for
hundreds of thousands of hams stuck in apartments where even minimal
antennas are a challenge.
73, Jim K9YC
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