I am pretty serious about DXing. I am not on the honor roll. I have over 300 confirmed. I couldn't tell you who is at the top. Why does it matter? Those at the top did it their way, whatever that
It makes one contact maybe. There was a wideband RTTY option that was used by an I station where you essentially did the same thing as you do with FT8, pick a hole and dump your call the the program
W0MU On, or in, the ground radials are much longer electrically than they are physically because the Vp is much reduced. How much so, who knows? Put in enough and resonance doesn't really matter. S
You can start a CQ and the program will work someone if they call with no user intervention but then it stops. On 10/25/2017 9:59 PM, Gary Smith wrote: I used RC2 and now, RC3 and there's no way in t
The ARRL will create a new certificate. It will be new income. This is a no brainer. They already have an FT8 mode in WAS. DX pileups should not be that much different than RTTY. They will need to
So why does everyone have to play by your rules and not those of the people giving out the awards? How about the built in 10 to 15 db advantage of living next to the pond may give? Remote radio is
Some people would prefer the machine gun method. We are all different, thankfully. Some people like running 5kw to work dx and yes it happens every single day and many countries and others will go f
The sad part is that most, not all, don't care if they hobby dies. They are simply in it for themselves. I wish most of you (agree or disagree with the ARRL) were in attendance at the W9DXCC Convent
Working V26 was a chore from Colorado. Even 75m was tough. Not fun. Didn't hear a single North American station ! (even though I'm sure all the big signals were on) Perhaps conditions will improve
Roger, Do you work FT8? Have you attempted to work any DX on FT8? It takes some skill. There are different skillsets required. I could argue it takes little skill to buy a 10kw amplifier a remote
I have no problem with awards with lots of categories. It is much easier today to work lots of countries on 160, because of remote radio. Remote Radio is another great innovation for the hobby. It
Thanks for the update. I guess nobody is close to him to attempt to help. W0MU A few friends have asked about VE1ZZ since he has not been on Topband much lately. I gave him a call yesterday on the ph
The normal bandwidth for FT8 is 2.5 to 2.8 kc. at 1.842.9 you should have been outside the FT8 band. Hardly anyone operates above 2.5 it seems anyway. I think you were essentially being trolled.
Very poor from Colorado. 80 and 40 were not what I would call great either. I did snag 9m6 for a new on on 80 well after my SR on Sunday. I woke up early and thought I would have great fun on the
The band was open to EU at least on FT8 from Colorado last night. It is the first opening I have been around for. I worked about 7 stations but it took real 160m power even with FT8 most signals w
It was the best opening I have heard since getting on FT8. I have missed plenty of nights though. Here is a map of what was decoded. That would be calls I decoded and stations that decoded my call.
I forgot the link to the map https://i.imgur.com/EnylEMd.png And ended up working 35 NA stations! Including across to Texas and several Midwest states . . . brilliant! However . . . was it good condi
Give FT8 a try. I worked my first EU the other night and then a few last night in the contest, G, F, EA and CT9. Not much Caribbean or Africa on. I did copy a couple of JA's the other night while
Good to hear. Santa just dropped off the AA-230 Zoom. I have yet to play with it on a real antenna. Nice piece of gear. Well done. On 12/11/2017 9:10 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: The Rig E
I worked a few stations on FT8 in Colorado and the PJ7. I did not hear too much on CW when I listened. Nice to see the band open at least for a bit to EU! Managed to work a number of stations, inclu