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

[EJ]

Congrats to all you guys on the DX your working on 6.  I see ya in there.  Pat you got some good ones the other day! One nice thing about being on the same frequency is you know exactly what the other guys in the club are working

 

EJ  K5EJ

 

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of patw5vy at gmail.com
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 8:34 AM
To: 'Rory Bowers' <k6cks01 at gmail.com>; 'Dennis Schaefer' <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ADXA] Congrats to Joel and Steve, and 6M

 

I found FT4 to be pretty effective at times during the VHF Contest.  The last hour I was on Rich Mtn, EM24, I made 39 FT4 QSOs.  That’s not a great rate but not bad for a Rover.  I had tried to get a run going on SSB but just couldn’t make it work.  Did S&P SSB for a while before moving to FT4.  After using FT4 for a while going back to FT8 really is like watching paint dry!  I worked K1JT on FT4!

 

73,

Pat, W5VY

 

From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net>  <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> > On Behalf Of Rory Bowers
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Subject: Re: [ADXA] Congrats to Joel and Steve, and 6M

 

I agree Dennis... major accomplishments!  I don't see a problem with spreading out FT8 on 6M.  I have yet to copy one station using FT4 on 6.  The mode is simply not effective on 6 so nobody is using it.  Why not take advantage of the additional spectrum when the band is very busy like it has been recently.  I feel the same about 20M FT8.  The spectrum between 14.077 and 14.080 is virtually unused.  In the most recent release of WSJT-X Joe suggested in his release notes that we should try 14.071 on a trial basis.  I thought this was a bad idea, the PSK guys are already there (14.070 - 14.073) and putting FT8 in the mix would cause major interference problems between incompatible modes.  I think some serious thought needs to be given to spectrum use to make it easier for all of us to make good contacts without worrying about QRM.

73 Dennis!

Rory, K5CKS

 

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 6:29 AM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com <mailto:dennisw5rz at gmail.com> > wrote:

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
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