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Re: Topband: FT-8 Contest would be great for Topband

To: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: FT-8 Contest would be great for Topband
From: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:34:02 -0600
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Why not? I think that an FT8 contest would be a good experiment, at least.

It needs a sponsor(s) and some tentative rules. Any suggestions?

73, Mike
W0BTU

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 12:38 PM Herbert Schoenbohm <
herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know the purists will flame me for this but look at the frequency
> conservation this would present and look at the activity statistics for
> only the past couple of hours,
>
> AIf the contest was designed well sub-channels could be recommended for
> the various continents as Stew Perry use to urge for intercontinental QSO's
> from 1825-1830.
>
> Here are the amazing stats for only two hours.
>
> Modes over last 2 hours
> Mode Count
> FT8 1549146
> FT4 41733
> JS8 7895
> CW 6894
> [Snip]
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