[OKDXA] FT8WW - Crozet

[Kim Elmore]

Wish I were one of the 102 CW Qs! Alas, I snoozed.

I'm sure things are stressful enough for him there. I wouldn't be 
surprised if he stayed almost exclusively FT8. Pretty much letting a 
machine picking the calls out of the pile has to be at least a *little* 
less stressful than wrestling with a snarling pile on CW by ear, 
especially with with all the inevitable intentional QRM. SSB? Fuggitaboutit!

I admit that I'm not crazy about the machine modes. I don't *dis*like 
them, but I like CW better. Yet, computers are a requirement for any 
serious operation. In logging applications, they really do make our 
lives easier, less stressful, and more productive. Since computer 
logging places no significant demand on any computer, if it can help 
move the process of handing out Qs to the Deserving, it should. Thus do 
we have these amazing digital/machine modes.

So, I shall begin the process of untangling all those wires of my 
"wireless" station so as to find the audio output of the rig to the 
audio input of the computer and then find the audio out of the computer 
and connect it to the audio input of the rig. Sigh...

Kim N5OP

On 12/27/2022 12:22 PM, Jeff Martin wrote:
> Looks like he has moved to 10.131 FT8, First Sequence... West Coast US 
> is working him now LP, along with Europe. I'm not hearing him, either 
> path... Started hearing him later this morning, not until a little 
> after 8AM. It lasted past 10:30AM, long path 20 meters. At times he 
> was very loud, 3 streams as strong as plus 15 on my tribander at 50 feet.
>   I know many of us (myself included) are not crazy about FT8. Whether 
> we like it or not, the DXing game has changed. If you want to work DX, 
> you gotta at least have a fundamental knowledge of how to operate FT8. 
> That's where the DX is, and things are not going to go back to the old 
> days... This is progress, like it or not... hi...
>   Given Thierry's demonstrated skill set so far, I would expect this 
> is going to be a 95% FT8 DXpedition. The pile-ups would probably eat 
> him alive on CW and especially on SSB... So, if you want to work 
> Crozet, work him on FT8... Good Luck everyone. Hope you get him in the 
> log...
>
> 73,
> Jeff - K5WE
>
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