[ARC5] BC-453 or R-23(*)/ARC-5 on 600 meters...

[David Stinson]

This is all IMHO, of course:

God bless all those folks who love WSPR and such
ultra-loooooow-through-put modes.   Go to it.
They're just not for me.

If I can't exchange information at a practical rate,
I don't see the point beyond being a "marker beacon" for 
propagation or something.  As for the "DX" possible...
I don't think of "DX" as copying a single call sign in 
Timbuktoo after listening for 26 hours.  
I thought one had to "communicate" to "work DX."
Well, we can detect a microwatt signal from anywhere on
Earth and far beyond given frequency certainty and 
long-enough integration time.  But once one has acquired
the known carrier signal, what else good is it?

Back in the mid-80s on 1750 meters when we broke the 
1000-mile barrier, then swiftly the 2000 mile barrier,
then Coast-to-Coast, then California to Hawaii and
we used plain-old CW.  The only computer was
the squishy one between our ears and the "input device"
was a good set of earphones.
That's the "communication" on Longwave I enjoyed.
The computer and the long integration just feel 
"artificial" to me.  I'd rather sweat for it.
YMMV of course.

73 DE Dave AB5S