I'm not a digital guy, just my preference and don't really have much of an
opinion on it. Mostly what I hear from others. This past FD we set up FT8 on
6m. It was a complete waste of time. I think we had 15 QSOs.
It seems the problem is that everyone wants to make this mode into something it
is not. It is a great HF weak signal mode. Now that they have the DX pedition
mode figured out it's pretty good for that too.
What it's NOT is a good mode for contesting. rag chewing, passing traffic, etc.
But we keep wanting to pound this square peg into a round hole as evidenced by
this thread and the silly gyrations to use this mode with contest logging
software.
This is evidenced by the top scores in RTTY RU..none used FT8, at least SO.
Let's stop pounding that peg and expecting it to fit.
73,
Gary K9GS
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