[Elecraft] FT 8

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

If you like it use it!  If  not move on.  Like packet it is out of the 
bag.  It is not going back in.

FT8 has allowed many people with less than ideal situations to work dx 
they never had a chance to work before.  This is a good thing no?  
People should want to operate and make contacts.

I didn't realize that people using a couple of Kc of bandspace was a 
problem.  At least 100 people can operate in less space than an SSTV 
signal or SSB signal.

I  operated CW in the past, but really loved SSB, today it is the other 
way around and I also enjoy FT8 as I can operate and work at the same time.

Things change, life keep on.  Much to do about nothing.

W0MU


On 3/3/2018 6:11 PM, rich hurd WC3T wrote:
> At the risk of arousing the ire of those who have gone before me, I humbly
> submit that we have beat the FT8 horse to death - many times over.
>
> Nobody's going to be happy about the ultimate answer and it might be best
> to just let nature take its course, no matter what it is.
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wes!
>>
>> "Operator skill" ...
>>
>> Surely you jest ...
>>
>> 73!
>>
>> K0PP
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 17:44 Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting myself in part from an email to my DX club reflector re: FT8
>>>
>>> "I think I will set a personal standard, at least for awards purposes,
>>> that 1) I
>>> will be at the controls of the station. 2) I won't count any QSO that
>>> couldn't
>>> have been copied on CW. 3)  I won't count any QSO that requires the
>>> software to
>>> have prior knowledge of the two station calls or could not be copied by
>> an
>>> uninterested third party.
>>>
>>> I'm sure there will be critics who declare that I'm an old fogy who is
>>> longing
>>> for the return of spark.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  I
>> have
>>> worked on the cutting edge of new technologies for years.  But, I also
>>> believe
>>> that there should be some value added by way of operator skill."
>>>
>>> Since that time I'm adding 4) If JTAlert pops up with a text message from
>>> my QSO
>>> partner wherein he tells me what he's copied and what I should send next,
>>> I will
>>> not complete the QSO.
>>>
>>> Wes  N7WS
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/3/2018 4:57 PM, William Levy 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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