Herb
I made one FT8 QSO on 432 upon request from a station around 40-50 km away.
Signal was good - it would have been easy copy on CW, maybe on SSB. But FT8
had a hard time copying, though it eventually worked after quite a few repeats.
It wasn't hard to see the problems....you know what 432 tropo/troposcatter
signals sound like...lots of fading, multiple aircraft- and other- scatter
signals on different frequencies (some of them drifting), etc. Much of the
time the different scatter signals' bandwidths overlapped and interfered with
each other.
I wouldn't recommend it - FT8 seems to be out of its element, though it was
interesting to see all the various different frequency components of the signal
on the waterfall!
73,
Steve VE3SMA
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