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1. Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:29:08 -0400; I'm very surprised by some of the comments here. I'm still going through the messages, but wanted to make a few comments already. In no particular order: 1) How is computer to computer FT8 different; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00175.html (7,956 bytes)
2. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:57:33 -0400; "Additionally, traditional RTTY is still a "hear it" mode. I actually listen to the tones and while obviously I can't decode them by ear, I can certainly tune them by ear. Furthermore, MMTTY, which I; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00176.html (7,444 bytes)
3. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:07:15 -0400; Fundamentally speaking, radio is RF between two antennas. Whatever is 'pumped' into the TX antenna and 'pulled' out of the RX antenna, is not radio, it's payload. To say FT8 is not amateur radio is i; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00177.html (7,157 bytes)
4. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:08:30 -0600; 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; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00178.html (8,400 bytes)
5. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:16:19 -0400; Correct... so what's the problem again about no human intervention? QSO machines? I am sure that programs could be written or exist to make rtty contacts more automated. W0MU Yes, but it has not happ; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00180.html (8,377 bytes)
6. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:32:05 -0400; "What concerns me is the fact that the technical level of the new ham is declining too fast. There is the feeling that "GOOGLE" can explain everything..." That's an important point, but Google is not; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00181.html (7,771 bytes)
7. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: "JC" <n4is@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:15:28 -0400; Hi Vince , just answering some of your questions for technical reasons, I see all innovation as good for the hobby. RTTY, a very popular mode among DXers and contesters?<< FT8 you make a decision wit; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00184.html (7,773 bytes)
8. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:25:32 -0700; Try leaving FT8 unattended, and see how many QSOs it makes by itself? 73 de Vince, VA3VF _________________ I've unsubscribed but the WSJT-X Yahoo group can be searched for a thread where a guy said h; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00186.html (8,146 bytes)
9. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:59:11 -0400; I used RC2 and now, RC3 and there's no way in this software to make FT8 QSO's automatically. I don't get why so many people think it is a QSO machine that you let it go and it finds and makes QSO's f; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00189.html (8,981 bytes)
10. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:08:39 -0600; 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; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00191.html (9,487 bytes)
11. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>; Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:35:24 -0700; 10/25/2017 20:15 PM, JC wrote: there is no human intervention on FT8 after the first click. Not in my experience with FT8. Crowded bands, DX with poor ears, callers on the DX frequency all make it a; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00192.html (9,125 bytes)
12. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:38:52 -0400; I have started a series of CQ and gotten bites but they do not complete. To verify this, I just now called CQ with FT8 and I got a reply from SM7OYP but my software did not reply. It will not reply u; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00196.html (11,163 bytes)
13. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: Larry <lknain@nc.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:47:49 -0400; The "Call 1st" option would seem to imply the auto QSO notion but "Call 1st" causes the "Enable TX" to be disabled when you send the "73" message regardless of the settings value for this behavior.; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00197.html (9,907 bytes)
14. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1): Author: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:19:14 -0400; Thanks, JC. Fair enough. I'm not a fan of SSTV. It's not watching paint dry, but watching the picture being painted. After monitoring the mode for a few days, I did not understand what some of the pi; /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00199.html (8,482 bytes)

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