Michael publishes a Club Log Summary of DX Activity each week.
If you look at the Most Active Modes, you will take away that FT8 is the
predominate mode. That said, if you drill down and look at the statistics for
DXpeditions, you can see many where CW still prevails.by a significant
margin. Even this doesn't tell the whole story as some DXpeditions don't even
have any CW ops anymore; TK1KJ for example. Does this prove the superiority of
FT8? I don't think so.
I have a friend, a superb op and fellow member of a very active DX club, who has
been on many many major DXpeditions. He has now bought into using FT8 on
expeditions. As he told me, "I don't have to listen to it, I can do other
things." Ham radio? Not to my way of thinking.
Wes N7WS
On 1/10/2020 12:15 PM, Michael Walker wrote:
Yes, the success is staggering.
There are graphs that show the FT8 usage and I would paste it into the body
of the email, but I can't. Clublog published it somewhere. It shows a
deep decline on CW and a minor decline on SSB and this was 2 years ago.
https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2019/03/club-log-stats-show-rise-of-ft8-mode-in.html
Geral K5SDR summed it up well here:
https://www.flexradio.com/ft8-tipping-point-for-ham-radio/
Mike va3mw
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