[GCARC] AB2E/VP9 30m FT8 now

[Frank Romeo]

GCARC has a discord setup: https://discord.gg/Tbag46mV

We did experiment with Slack but quickly outgrew their free plan.

73
Frank N3PUU

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On 2023-05-26 13:57, Jim n2gxj wrote:
> Anyone can bring up any new business at next club meeting.  Next club
> meeting is back at Pfiefer center on June 7.  Will you be back by then?
> Not sure if is widely known, but we also use Slack.  Or should I say 
> the
> "skunkworks" group uses Slack. Feel free to talk about at club meeting.
> 
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 1:54 PM Agustin Neron Properties LLC <
> ab2e at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Jim,
>> Who would handle new business for the club meeting?
>> FRC uses a nifty chat room app called Slack. It's lot's of fun and it
>> could be a place for the club members to meet and discuss things in 
>> real
>> time without waiting for the reflector mail. Just a thought.
>> TonyK3TS uses it in FRC too,
>> 83 Darrell AB2E
>> 
>> 
>> On 05/26/2023 1:44 PM EDT Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> @Darrel,have you considered something faster than FT8, like FT4?
>> I used FT4 (on the default FT4 frequency for each band) in last year 
>> field
>> day, and got much higher qso count/hour.
>> Also kept me on my toes!  FT8 is like watching paint drying sometimes
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:41 PM Agustin Neron Properties LLC <
>> ab2e at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I got K2MEN and N2GXJ in the log on 17m earlier tonight.
>> Who will be next?
>> 
>> I'm on 30m FT8 now, seems like endless demand on FT8,
>> But it's slow going.
>> I'll show you my screen shots of the FT8 pileups and why they seem so
>> slow.
>> I call CQ once and have maybe 30 callers. The screen is total red with
>> callers!
>> 
>> 73 to all,
>> Darrell AB2E/VP9
>> 
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