[Elecraft] Ideas for an FT8 Radio

[Neil Zampella]

Carl,

you tell that to Joe Taylor, who himself has said he uses the power it 
takes to make the contact, especially on EME and Meteor Scatter. It is 
not a low power mode.  For some people using 500w from California 
results in a - 19 report from  Israel.    That is a weak signal.

You use what it takes to make the contact.

Neil, KN3ILZ

On 1/2/2019 5:56 PM, Carl J. Denbow wrote:
> While it's legal to run maximum power on FT8, or any other weak signal 
> mode, it's certainly not in the spirit of the weak signal mode ethos  
> Most weak-signal mode enthusiasts pride themselves on the worldwide 
> contacts they can make with low wattage.  Many feel that 100 watts is 
> QRO on these modes. Personally, I usually run about 35 watts, but I've 
> had QSOs with stations in far-flung regions running power in the 
> milliwatt range with a dipole up 20 feet. That's the real attraction 
> of these modes to many. And, until the advent of FT8, you heard very 
> few stations running more than 100 watts on these modes.  FT8 seems to 
> have attracted a whole different crowd.  Some of these, I think, view 
> FT8 as a "the new RTTY" and operate according to the accepted 
> operating procedures of that mode.  I view this trend as very 
> unfortunate.
>
> 73,
>
> Carl
>
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