[ADXA] A8OK on 7.056 FT8 - lonesome

[w5znjoel at gmail.com]

For the record Old Betsy wasn't a CW transmitter, it was a spark transmitter.

Regardless, I SECOND THE MOTION !!!!!   😊

I plead insanity due to all the eclipse hysteria that I still haven't drank the Kool-Aid and bought in to........................

ZN

-----Original Message-----
From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Charles McKenzie, KF5TL via ADXA
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2024 10:32 AM
To: J. Setcer <j.setcer at gmail.com>
Cc: ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>; Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ADXA] A8OK on 7.056 FT8 - lonesome



On that note I think that all DXCC awards to be reallocated but to be fair lets regress to only cw contacts made using the blue print of "OLD BETSY"
the spark gap transmitter made by Hiram, on display at ARRL HQ. That way we dont have to pick and choose what later use of technology is used to make a contact.
73 KF5TL  Charles


On 2024-04-07 21:45, J. Setcer wrote:
> I respect that FT8 has a place in our DXing. --- Yet, I still am 
> uncertain if FT8 contacts should count towards DXCC credits...
> I guess I'm just an Appliance operator, or a Glorified CBer...
> 
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 7:04 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I was the only one calling him -
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