Nice.
Your comment was really not even worth making. Let’s call it bullying
> On Nov 25, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Alan Swinger <awswinger@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> So, your computer worked him while you were out of the room and not at the
> rig!? If only there was an award for computers vice operators. - Alan K9MBQ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wes <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>
>> Sent: Nov 25, 2019 7:42 AM
>> To: topband@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: Topband: H40TT on 160m
>>
>> Conditions are awful with horrible noise this AM. Haven't figured out
>> whether
>> it is local or what. I don't need H40 and I'm defiantly not a fan of FT8.
>> Nevertheless, I set up the rig and unsuccessfully called for awhile before
>> deciding to come into the office and check my email.
>>
>> I just stepped back into the shack and see that "I" worked him at 12:26:30
>> with
>> a -15 signal report.
>>
>> Wes N7WS
>>
>>> On 11/25/2019 4:46 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
>>> I finally worked them, just a couple
>>> minutes ago FT8 @ 11:30Z, on their 1.836
>>> band plan, Right in the middle of my gray
>>> line, 6:30AM local.
>>>
>>> I'm lucky to hear them at this time, I'm
>>> 75' from AMTRAK and gray line is always
>>> obliterated heavy commuter rail traffic
>>> with me being 5 minutes away from New
>>> London, CT, a major hub between Boston &
>>> NYC. During the contest I missed several
>>> gray line contacts because I couldn't hear
>>> anything for 30 seconds with each passing
>>> train and that's the busiest commuter
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Grouse grouse...
>>>
>>> One of the impressive things I notice with
>>> JTDX's FT8 waterfall, while the P3 shows
>>> bright red obliteration of the signal and
>>> headphones are also obliterated when the
>>> trains pass, with the JTDX waterfall there
>>> is almost no indication of the RFI from
>>> the train passing. I was -22 & they were
>>> -18 so the signals were low indeed.
>>>
>>> Ah well, they're in the log now. Love 160,
>>> it's never a sure bet.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Gary
>>> KA1J
>>>
>>
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