[OKDXA] FT8WW - Crozet

[N4IJ]

You guys should know that I monitor this e-mail list because I find it as
informative as any. Leave me on it if you want. I was a member when living
in OKLA.  I work FT8 but only because I want to work someone when CW is
slim.  It is very disappointing
that an ATNO for me would have to be on a mode that is not human readable.
I am trying for  #330 on CW and the way I see  it,
FT8WW will not count for me...  Good luck to all of you, and Merry
Christmas..

Doug N4IJ (North Carolina)

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 6:04 PM Alan Swinger <awswinger at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Really! I hope he wakes up andd gets on CW and SSB sometime in the next
> few Months! - Alan K9MBQ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oklahoma DX Association <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Dec 27, 2022 5:45 PM
> To: <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] FT8WW - Crozet
>
> 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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