[NLRS] The New Normal?

[Phil Lefever]

I first really felt the influence of FT8 on 6m at last years Field Day. For a few years I helped out our local club setting up and running a VHF station for them. 
As Rich mentioned there were a few contacts here and there that were 9++ kinds of signals but there were no runs no matter how I tried. Typical events over the past years have generally netted 250-500 6m SSB Q's. The FT8 frequency was constantly busy of course. I suppose my lesson is next year I need an FT8 interface...
Perhaps I'll just apply another coat of wax to the case of my Johnson Viking and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
Only thing that is inevitable is change.
73
Phil, KB0NES    On Sunday, May 31, 2020, 04:20:08 PM CDT, Jon Platt via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net> wrote:  
 
 Had one decode on a KL7 at -20, that was it for me.   Location, location, location.
73, JonW0ZQ


-----Original Message-----
From: Arliss <w7xu at w7xu.com>
To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, May 31, 2020 2:14 pm
Subject: Re: [NLRS] The New Normal?

Speaking of unexpected Qs, did anyone else take part in the 6m 
opening to Alaska and Japan last night? I don't know when it 
started, but it lasted until 0730 UTC last night/this morning.

All my 6m antennas were down, but I was still able to work Alaska 
using my 30m beam on 6m. I was seeing up to 25 Japanese calls per 
15 second period on FT8, but was unable to work any of the JAs. 
Most of the JAs were -10 to -20; I'm sure that I could have 
worked some if I had had one of the 6m antennas up in the air.

I, too, miss the CW and SSB activity, but as Jon mentioned in his 
note, FT8 isn't all bad.


73, Arliss  W7XU
    EN13


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