Oh hell. Are you done now?
On September 30, 2017 10:12:15 PM EDT, Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>
wrote:
>On 9/30/2017 5:34 PM, Kurt Cathcart, KR2C wrote:
>> Imaginary modes by text messaging? Boy aren't you full of stuff
>tonight?
>>
>Not at all. FT8 decodes signals that aren't there and JT65 uses lookup
>tables to
>glean calls. So I call them imaginary modes. On my last FT8 QSO, and
>I do mean
>last, the DX station sent me a text message via JTAlert to tell me what
>he had
>copied and what I needed to send. This is like the users of eQSL who
>tell me
>that I need to correct my log so that have a QSO with me.
>
>I am not ethically-challenged so I do neither. So we've gone from DXCC
>"Honor"
>Roll members who have their buddy work a new one for them when they're
>out of
>town, to working new ones from a remote station across the country, to
>text
>messaging the QSOs. I guess when it's said that FT8 is going to
>revolutionize
>DXing it's true. Pity.
>
>Wes N7WS
>_______________________________________________
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>TowerTalk mailing list
>TowerTalk@contesting.com
>http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
--
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
|