[NLRS] Cqww vhf

Mon Jul 15 14:19:49 EDT 2024

Hate FT8 No challenge in it! Just not my cup of tea 73 K0SHF

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024, 1:13 PM Matt Arthur via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Well i have to agree.
>
> Just don't do the ft8.
>
> and if you do pleas don't take up the hole band when doing it.
>
> I have heard a cupple of pepople doiong over driving ft8.
>
> even one on 10 meters who had audio in the back ground of his stupid ft8.
>
> I could tell it was some relidges braud cast he was  listening to while
> doing ft8.
>
> He was taking up the hole bottom 400khz of 10 meters doing it.
>
> Gues hearing the gospel  news was pretting important to him while Ft8ing.
>
> Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
> On 7/15/2024 12:25 PM, Karl Heil wrote:
>
> Only cw and SSB here.
>
>
> Karl
> WD9BGA
> EN53ba
> 6/2/222/432/902/1296 and "some" 10GHz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> ------------------------------
> From: Mary Brown (maryalanab at gmail.com)
> Date: 07/15/24 12:15
> To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] Cqww vhf
>
> The guys running digital need to go analog part of the hour... FT8 bores
> me to death, no challenge in it... watching a computer make contacts is
> just meh! If they would hp up on the calling frequency in the last 10
> minutes of the hour they would increase the number of Q's made. Especially
> when they are S9+++ FT8 is not needed and voice contacts are way faster!
>
>
> Mary
>
> W0AAT
>
> PS: Don't even ask me to do FT8, not happening!
> On 7/15/2024 11:49 AM, Jim Spence via NLRS wrote:
>
> Comments & Suggestions from the peanut gallery:
>
> 1)  2023 results article is posted - scores last year were generally low -
> matched poor/flat conditions.  In a flat condition scenario (likely for
> 2024), NLRS is located in one of the best areas of the country to be
> competitive nationally.  Take advantage!
>
> 2)  NLRS has a lot of members with 6m & 2m capability.  Organize and agree
> on a time period ahead of time to get active on the analog modes.  Perhaps
> the first 2 hours?  Perhaps the last 2 hours Sunday afternoon?  Perhaps
> both?  Perhaps some other time with a bunch of folks available?
>
> 3)  PLEASE CQ as much as possible.  No one will know you are QRV if you
> don't transmit.  The inherent digital mode advantage is that active
> stations are effectively 50% duty cycle and extremely easy to find & ID.
> Are you easy to find & ID on analog modes?  CQ!
>
> 73
>
> Jim KO9A (EN52xc)
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2024 at 11:44:11 AM CDT, Rusty Lane via NLRS
> <nlrs at mailman.qth.net> <nlrs at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>
> Dave et all,
> I have not been active with the hobby for a long time until covid came
> along, I jumped feet first into SOTA and a little POTA, great reason to get
> outside, fresh air and addressed being stir crazy during the pandemic.
> I am not a digital operator, I have gotten on for a couple VHF contests
> and been disappointed in lack of activity. I love CW and SSB, I spend my
> time on CW mainly on HF with NAQCC, SK club and other monthly and weekly
> sprints, lots of CW and SSB activity on HF for me. We tried a monthly NLRS
> CW sprint, I got frustrated calling CQ and hearing nothing, digital seems
> to have taken over.
> I have limited free time so HF is where I hang my hat currently.
>
> Russell Lane, W0LMS
> 612-578-4809
> Life is a journey, not a destination!
>
>
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2024 at 10:32:00 AM CDT, Dave Aho - N9TTX via NLRS
> <nlrs at mailman.qth.net> <nlrs at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>
> Just as a curiosity, and planning question, how many operators still use
> SSB/CW as opposed to digital during the contest? Have they gone all but
> extinct?  I remember 2020 was very sparse on those modes.
>
> I modulate, therefore I am! ...73, and all that jazz, Dave...N9TTX Always
> remember: "It could be worse.....it could be raining." Marty Feldman from
> "Young Frankenstein"
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