That is not correct: FT8 is combined with CW and SSB in VHF contests. There it
is very annoying for example to deal with a 30/Q hour rate (or whatever the max
FT8 rate is) in a big Es opening, when you could run at 150/hour on SSB. Or to
have to work local stations on MSK144 (digital meteor scatter mode) because
they no longer listen to 144.200 SSB/CW.
Tor
N4OGW
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On Thu, 10/25/18, David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WSJT-X For contests - Dry Run
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 3:09 AM
What do you care
what the data modes are evolving into if you don't use
them (even RTTY) and they don't affect
the CW and SSB contests that you
do use?
I don't get it. Amateur
radio is thankfully a lot broader than your
definition of it, and for the most part manages
to keep the various
modes segregated enough
to satisfy everyone. It makes zero sense to
bitch about what other people do if they
aren't negatively affecting
you. That
doesn't make you old, or outdated ... it makes you a
bigot.
"Bigot: A
/bigot/ is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any
opinions differing from their own."
Dave AB7E
On
10/23/2018 1:50 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
> As we move ever closer to fully-automated
data modes, the divide
> between data
and
> non-data modes gets bigger. When
and if the operator becomes
>
incidental, what will
> be the point of
such contest QSOs - other than bragging that my
> software is smarter
>
than yours?
>
> WSJT-X
may be the "flavour of the month" now - but, next
month, or
> certainly next
> year, something "better" will
turn up - as the potential for "new and
> improved" data
>
modes is limitless. Some see this as progress in amateur
radio and
> contesting - I see
> it as progress in automated two-way data
processing over RF.
>
> It seems to me that any mode that is not
and can not be decoded by
>
individual
> contesters (people) in
real-time does not truly represent amateur
> radio. But what
>
would I know, being just an old-fashioned (outdated?)
contester who
> keeps to
> phone and CW :-)
>
> Some will argue that we have to keep up,
we can't stop progress, and
> that
amateur
> radio and contesting are
evolving. I say that data modes are evolving
> into something
> else
entirely.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
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