[Lowfer] LF ham bands

[Douglas Williams]

How fickle the fates are. Modes come, and modes go. From CW, to QRSS, to
WOLF, to WSPR, to FST4W. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2JLdymT-LE&ab_channel=CyberChaosCrew

D. KB4OER

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:55 PM Clint Turner <turner at ussc.com> wrote:

> My observation - from the Western U.S. (Utah) is that JT9 is now almost
> nonexistent, effectively replaced by FST4-120 - I have only copied one
> or two stations using JT9 in the evenings, down from a dozen or more
> just a few weeks ago.
>
> Monitoring both FST4W-120 and WSPR, I would guesstimate that about 20%
> of the number of stations are copied using FST4W-120, the remainder
> using WSPR.  I have simultaneously monitored other FST4W variants (300,
> 900, 1800) on occasion and have not yet seen much there.  Again, this is
> from the perspective of my geography.
>
> It's probably fair to say that more stations are still monitoring WSPR
> than FST4W-120.  At the moment, it doesn't appear that one can divine
> from the GUI at wsprnet (or at VK7JJ) whether someone is received via
> FST4W-120 or WSPR as the "spot type" coding does not (yet) appear
> differentiate between the two 120 second modes.
>
> 73,
>
> Clint, KA7OEI