It was pretty late Sunday before people woke up. I tried many times without
success and then later Sunday it just lit up. For a while it may have been
too crowded. I would think that it would be preferable with some of the
short openings where a station is only there for less than a minute.
Dave
N2OA
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:18 PM John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Herb,
>
> Your experience was the opposite of mine. I tuned over to 50.318 quite a
> few times and found very little activity. I think I made 1 or 2 FT4 QSOs
> in the contest. Everything else was on FT8 where .313 was packed with
> activity. I much prefer FT4 in contesting due to its quicker exchanges.
> Wish more people would use it in contests. It seems to be catching on for
> HF contesting, but not for VHF contesting as much.
>
> 73 John AF5CC
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:17 AM Herb Krumich via VHFcontesting <
> vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> > Last evening in the contest I was amazed to see how many ops had switched
> > to FT4I ran stations for 3 hoursSo tonight I'm listening on 313 and it's
> > packedNothing on the FT4 freqWhen will people start using a speed mode
> vs a
> > snail mode73Herb K2LNS
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