Tor, I'm having a hard time even taking this thread seriously ... no critique
on your excellent comments. But why in the world would anyone want to use the
FT modes for a contest? The speed-slowing limitations of the transmssion
notwithstanding, letting my computer detect some sub-noise signals through
brilliant DSP technology and talk w/out me ever at the keyboard to another
system doing the same? That's a contact? Just baffles my 79 year old ham radio
brain.
I totally "get it" that this is amazing technology and can have military and
scientific uses, but for hobbiests to use it to "communicate" so-called amateur
radio contacts in some form of competition just leaves me totally cold.
But it is what it is, apparently, to many in our hobby.
Jim N3BB
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