[Elecraft] [KX3] Boldly OT: 6 meter Sporadic-E season and the FT-8 microjuggernaut

[David F. Reed]

I agree; the FT-8 thing has had a lot of negative impact; some of the other
modes that take longer, but are weak signal modes were far less
devastating; people used lower power and got along more or less without
interfering too much except with other JT modes...
I think the quick turn part of FT8 contributed to its rapid growth, and the
use of it with high power made it worse.

I am back to longing for a simple CW contact at a leisurely pace... Back to
my KX2 (serial number 72!) for a little fun on 30 M.

73 de Dave, W5SV

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com [KX3] <
KX3-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> At first I thought it was my receiver. Or my antenna farm, limited in
> scale by a pre-nuptial clause. Or noise caused by the zomboid army of
> switching power supplies oozing inexorably into my personal space.
>
> Nope.
>
> It turns out the dearth of CW and SSB signals on 6 meters at the height of
> 2018 Spring Sporadic-E season can be traced to one factor: the 24-hour
> intravenous rave that is FT-8.
>
> Yeah, I get the whole sub-noise-floor-and-not-automated-(wink)-QSO thing.
> But I’d like to figure out how those of us who enjoy the occasional
> gear-grinding manual-transmission contact can find each other on this brave
> new highway. Ideas?
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
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