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

[David Gilbert]

Wrong.

FT8 is indeed a sub-noise floor mode like JT65.  Don know where you got 
the idea it isn't, but FT8 is actually an offshoot of JT65 except it 
sacrifices a few db for the sake of faster exchanges.  The official FT8 
documentation from K1JT, the creator of both, says that it is nominally 
capable of -20 db decoding.  >Referenced to the noise floor<

And of course CW is faster ... just 20 db or so less effective for weak 
signal reception.

Dave   AB7E

sent from my home computer where I can look up stuff first so I don't 
post erroneous claims



On 6/1/2018 2:03 PM, Josh Fiden wrote:
> FT8 is *not* a "sub-noise floor" mode like JT65. You can complete faster on CW. It's great that there's so much activity, but far too many crap overdriven signals calling relentlessly.
>
> 73
> Josh W6XU
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