[Lowfer] LF ham bands

Douglas Williams williamsdoug1966 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 18:57:41 EDT 2020


2244 -31 0.2 1473 ` W1XP FN42 27

2248 -30 0.0 1473 ` W1XP FN42 27


And this reminds me. Vanity call? Nah. I'll keep the old KB4OER.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 6:07 PM Douglas Williams <williamsdoug1966 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>


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