[ADXA] Congrats to Joel and Steve, and 6M

[Dennis Schaefer]

Wow, 6 meters is letting people meet some major milestones!  Congratulations to Joel and Steve for big accomplishments.   That takes a lot of work and a lot of listening and station effectiveness.  

I probably copied  100 JA stations yesterday but couldn’t work anything with my pipsqueak station.  Signals were as good as -7 but typically -18 to -10.   Sometimes decoded a dozen in a sequence.   I don’t think my FT-991 would hold up at 100 watts output on FT8 so I usually run it at 40 or 50 watts.  I’m sure with a couple more elements and a few more watts, I could have worked some.  

I suspect the trend will eventually be to spread FT8 out between 313 and 323.  FT4 is right in the middle, though, so maybe FT8 covering 313 to 326 and FT4 above that.  I’m sure it will be evolving.

No JA’s heard on CW.  I probably didn’t have enough S/N to copy them on SSB, but CW would have been possible.
73,
Dennis