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

[Michael Blake]

To add insult to injury the signals are not even below the noise floor.  Only when calculated against a 3 KHz bandwidth.  You can clearly see signals on the P3 that are reporting -25 snr within WSJT-X.

I believe the main selling point is that you can work DXCC in short time with zero personal involvement :)

Michael Blake
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> On Jun 1, 2018, at 11:53 AM, David F. Reed <w5sv.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Posted by: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
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