Are you hinting that there’s a future to 5 wpm CW contesting?
Is there a possibility that guys running decoders at 5 wpm could enjoy cw
contesting the same as they do in ft8?
How close can ft8 be in terms of decoding compared to 5 wpm CW?
Would we be willing to take our speed down just to attack participants to
cw?
Will these decoder operators would be challenged to learn Morse code
because of it?
Many possibilities indeed..
Felipe
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> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:21:24 -0700
> From: Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com>
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> Enjoy! Feel free to forward this to your local club etc.
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> https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2021/RTTY-RU-2021-FinalFullResults.pdf
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> 73 jeff wk6i
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> ps: If you find a booboo you can let me know :)
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> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: MARK BAILEY <kd4d@comcast.net>
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> Subject: [CQ-Contest] June 19, 2021 W3LPL Open House will be in person
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> Good day everyone:
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> We are going to try something new for the 2021 W3LPL Open House. For
> those who do not attend in person, we will set up a Kiosk where attendees
> can speak to people who are attending on-line. We will also put Frank's
> antenna tour on-line.
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> Join us from 12:00 noon to 3:00PM EDT (16:00-19:00 UTC) on June 19 at:
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> We look forward to seeing you there, either in person or on-line.
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> 73,
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> Mark, KD4D and Frank, W3LPL
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> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:24:42 +0100
> From: Jos? Nunes CT1BOH <ct1boh@gmail.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contesting and the FT8 Revolution
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> There is a revolution going on ? The FT8 revolution! Like other
> revolutions, it is a breakthrough and there is no coming back. But unlike
> what many think, FT8 mode is fantastic for amateur radio and of course for
> contesting.
>
>
> There are several things I can particularly note:
>
>
> ** The spotting revolution
>
> Because of the default reporting option of FT8 applications, every station
> that uses JTDX/WSJT applications is constantly spotting all the stations
> that the decoders hear. Every station becomes a spotting machine of the
> bands (just like a skimmer) while they are on. The result?! 20.8 billion
> FT8 spots in 4 years.
>
>
> ** The small pistol station revolution
>
> Considering a 2500 Hz bandwidth and weak-signal/Noise Ratio, SSB can go as
> low as +10 dB, CW -15 db and FT8 -21dB. To put it in another way, since
> doubling power results in 3 dB increase in SNR, a 31db difference means 1W
> in FT8 versus 1024 watts in SSB.
>
> A modest station, suddenly, feels like a new world of propagation has
> opened to him and this in return brings more and more people to the bands
> because of the fun of working stations and paths not before available.
> There is a virtuous cycle ? more spots, more people, more activity, more
> spots, more people, more activity, ?
>
>
> ** The now-casting propagation revolution
>
> With such a huge volume of spots, 20.8 billion in 4 years and around 22
> million spots per day [just for your reference last CQWW CW generated 6.5M
> spots], propagation prediction is turning into now-casting propagation.
> There is no need for propagation prediction anymore because, knowing the
> propagation pattern from 20 billion spots and getting real propagation from
> the 22 million spots per day, real time conditions come from now-casting
> propagation - any circuit can be determined to be open or close.
>
> You can watch my 2021 Contest University presentation about this subject
> here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-esob7BPtc&t=20340s and/or get the
> slides of the presentation slides here
>
> https://www.contestuniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/There-is-Nothing-Magic-About-Propagation-CTU-2021-CT1BOH.pdf
>
>
>
> ** The station optimization revolution
>
> This is perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of FT8 and of great
> interest to contest stations. Because of the spotting revolution and
> because every FT8 station uses exact grid locator, the exact path of the
> circuits can be drawn. A contest station that uses a simple FT8 skimmer can
> monitor, 24x7, the potential of any antenna set-up, compare different
> antennas configuration (A/B testing using different calls), test antenna
> take-off angles, and adjust this information to available propagation at
> any time, before or during a contest. ?22 million spots per day? are there
> available to test your station. I believe every station, DX or Contest,
> should
> use a FT8 Skimmer, like the stand alone Red Pitaya
> https://www.redpitaya.com/ to skim several bands at the same time at a
> very
> low cost, provide now-casting information, check antenna and location
> potential and use that for station optimization. This link takes you to a
> visualization of my modest small pistol station (just a simple long wire)
> potential on all the bands https://tinyurl.com/e6767we8 in the last 24
> hours.
>
>
> ** The marginal bands revolution
>
> With FT8, marginal bands like 160, 10 and 6 meters become alive like no
> other. Going deeper into the SNR, ?opens? new circuits, brings more
> activity, confirms these circuits were always there. We are working Japan
> on 6 meters on a daily basis... Also, there is a move from CW into FT8 on
> these band. This is a side effect, but it is what it is. If people suddenly
> find a band open at -21dB that before was close at -15dB, of course they
> will use the mode that enables those QSOs and will not use the other mode
> anymore.
>
> In any case competitive contesting (SSB and CW) has a lot to gain form this
> revolution. Exciting times indeed
>
> 73 Jos? Nunes
> CONTEST CT1BOH - http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh
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