I'm not fan of ARRL for just about anything, but it seems twisted logic
to accuse them of "greed" for not making FT/JT a separate DXCC award
when they would clearly make more money if they had made it a separate one.
As I've posted before, I have a very difficult time making a distinction
between a typical RTTY contact in a contest or DXpedition (both of which
feed DXCC) versus an FT8 contact. Both are essentially push button
QSOs. If you disagree, please point out the pertinent differences.
I'll bet I can point out twice as many significant similarities as you
can point out significant differences.
I'd rather be making CW contacts myself, but I'm just trying to be
objective here ... versus you calling FT and JT "artificial modes".
73,
Dave AB7E
On 8/14/2019 11:30 PM, Mats Strandberg wrote:
The new FT8 euphoria has forever changed the perception of DX-big, thanks to
ARRL’s greed for
award revenue ;(
And, what we now see is the result of the wrong decision to equalize FTx,
JT and other artificial modes, with RTTY, SSB and CW, and accept them for
DXCC Mixed.
The correct way would have been to create FT/JT DXCC separate from Classic
DXCC...
DXCC as we all knew it, has been hurt tremendously by ARRL unthoughtful
decision to accept FT/JT in Mixed!
73 de RM2D (Mats)
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