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Re: [CQ-Contest] [Contest] 2020 June VHF Contest

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [Contest] 2020 June VHF Contest
From: beaudoin <wa1fcn@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 22:10:25 -0500
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    GE Jim

        My view from someone who has spent a fair amount of time with FT8.

        FT8 is more like fishing in a barrel. RTTY to me is much more difficult and involved .

                73 BoB WA1FCN

On 6/9/2020 4:23 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 6/9/2020 1:13 PM, Courtney Judd wrote:
have at it. I don't consider digi to be a real mode and see no reason why I should be asked to compete with it. This is my opinion and if you don't like it, hit delete and move on.

I use FT8 a lot on 160 for long haul DX that I can't work on CW, and on 6M for E-skip chasing grids, but I have so far not gotten excited about FT8/FT4 contesting. That said, I see little difference between the attitude expressed in this post and those who, in the '50s and '60s, refused to switch to that new-fangled SSB.

I also fail to see how FT8 differs from RTTY implemented by stations using, for example, N1MM or WriteLog with multiple decoder windows in which one simply clicks on a callsign to start an automated QSO and clicks on the report to enter it into the log.

Perhaps someone could explain the difference.

73, Jim K9YC
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