[Elecraft] FT 8

[Mike Flowers]

The Old Signalman, seeing the new-fangled 
telegraph poles and wires stretching off to the horizon, threw down his semaphore flags in disgust.

-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!"

> On Mar 3, 2018, at 3:57 PM, William Levy <wglevy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As an old dog I am sorry to see that FT8 has become all the rage.
> I grew up with a few vacuum tubes and a dipole. AM carrier controlled, 5
> tube receivers. Loved CW when I had very little. Love SSB with big antennas
> and towers.
> 
> FT8 changes the game. No more rag chews. So this is what DX has become. No
> big power, no big antennas. Someone will write an app that will tell the
> radio to keep calling cq and log contacts. V.2 of the App will record new
> prefixes and club log it.
> 
> I may feel critical as I write this but the future is not mine and all is
> fair in love and war.
> 
> Sincerely, Bill N2WL
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