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1. Topband: FT8 vs other modes - my numbers (score: 1)
Author: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:12:27 -0500
There are some untrue things being assumed here, as if they are advantages to FT8 that make FT8 be a more productive mode for DX'ing. In fact FT8 is the least productive of all modes I used in 2018.
/archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00017.html (8,269 bytes)

2. Re: Topband: FT8 vs other modes - my numbers (score: 1)
Author: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 12:28:17 -0700
FT8 was not created to be a rate mode.  It is a weak signal mode.  For those of us a long way from the East Coast and salt it allows us to work stations that we probably had very little shot of worki
/archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00030.html (9,827 bytes)

3. Re: Topband: FT8 vs other modes - my numbers (score: 1)
Author: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 10:05:06 -0500
Mike, you are buying into a myth that both supporters and detractors of FT8 perpetuate. The myth that FT8 is superior for DX'ing, to other modes. 2018 was my "year of FT8". I participated in several
/archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00039.html (12,617 bytes)

4. Re: Topband: FT8 vs other modes - my numbers (score: 1)
Author: Jeff Blaine <KeepWalking188@ac0c.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 12:43:36 -0600
Tim, My take on the popularity is explained this way.  FT8 has an SNR advantage over CW of around 5 dB, PSK31 - about 10 dB and SSB of more than 15 dB.  So for a given set of link conditions, FT8 res
/archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00044.html (15,532 bytes)


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