[Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.

[McDonald, J Douglas]

I've tried the program Multipsk on both my Airspy and various boatanchors and
and had extremely poor results. 

One problem is that I have no idea what the names of the most-used ham band modes are,
and how to identify them. There are lots of reasonably strong signals but
I can't decode without a reasonably small list of made names. 

Does anybody around here have such a list, or point me to a web page with that
info for hams?


Doug McDonald

-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 5:24 AM
To: Boat Anchors List
Subject: [Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.

Well, I had an update from a friend who is an almost 100% CW op but
mostly with all the modern stuff.  We were talking a few nights ago
and he happened to talk about his recent operating activity and how
everyone who operates CW on HF has pretty much given up due to poor
condx and are now operating those alphabet soup PSK weak signal
computer modes.  They have designators like JT something or F8, ... I
can't even remember exactly because when people talk about them I tune
out.  But he's regularly active hunting DX, especially on 80 m. and
says that's what "everyone" is doing instead of CW.  I would have
never guessed that myself but apparently I am out of touch with the
modern ham.

73

Rob
K5UJ

>Not so long ago, tuning from 3500-3550 at night and 7000-7100
>any non-contest time, one would have heard many CW QSOs.
>The last several times I've listened, it's one or two.
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