[Elecraft] Operating from a retirement home

[David Gilbert]

That's impressive, but Collington is a full blown retirement community, 
like Sun City here in Arizona.  It's not even close to being practical 
to do anything similar for the typical retirement home.  On the other 
hand, a small laptop with a TeamViewer link to a distant club station 
running FT8 would put anyone anywhere on the air ... with the added 
benefit that FT8/4 doesn't require good hearing or manual dexterity.

JS8, an offshoot of FT8,  is even a bit more of a conversational mode.  
I've never used it and it doesn't have anything close to the acceptance 
that some people have touted it to have, but PSK Reporter does show it 
being moderately popular.

73,
Dave   AB7E


On 12/16/2019 9:57 AM, N4ZR wrote:
> A spectacular example of how to do this right has been set by PVRCers 
> at the Collington Continuing-Care retirement community in Prince 
> George's County MD.  See the QRZ lookup for K3CCR.  These 5 guys have 
> demonstrated what can be done, and they're doing it most every weekend.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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