[ADXA] 6 Meters to EU Today

[Joel Harrison]

The sad part is, if TT8SN has not left FT8 and QSY’ed to CW I most likely would NOT have worked him Yesterday. I could not get through the mayhem on FT8 and he was taking a long time to work folks. When he went to CW he was whacking off Q’s pretty quickly and I got through.

While I like FT8 as a mode that does have some advantages it also has disadvantages compared to other modes.

ZN

> On May 31, 2020, at 5:01 PM, k5ur at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Was listening all morning. Nothing on CW or SSB, the lost and forgotten modes, but there were reports it was wall to wall Europe to north America on FT8. Heard one guy say he went "to the loo" and came back and while he was gone he'd "worked" a new one he'd been calling earlier. Never even heard the QSO. Yep, think about that. Us old timers like San and me just spit nails when I hear crap like that.
> 
> But, it's a different point in time, isn't it. 
> 
> I was happy to see so many people excited working new ones and it reach the west coast. Lots of happy people. 
> 
> 73
> Rick - K5UR
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> To: adxa <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sun, May 31, 2020 3:17 pm
> Subject: [ADXA] 6 Meters to EU Today
> 
> The EU 6 meter opening this morning into Arkansas was very short. I only 
> had about a 10-15 minute opening here. No new ones worked but the 
> amazing thing about the opening today was folks out west in W7 territory 
> had a 2 to 3 our opening to EU which is very rare!
> 
> So, keep tuned to 6 meters for the next few weeks we're at the peak time 
> annually and so far there have been some nice surprises but sometimes 
> they are very short and unexpected like yesterday's Africa opening.
> 
> 73 Joel W5ZN
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