[TVARC] FT8 Templates AND FT8 Operation Protocols

[Frank M]

George et al,
Good idea but I recommend expanding that to an FT8 section with your idea as well as a guide to operational protocols for FT8.
Today, I see more and more extremely poor operating practices on FT8. Example, answer someones CQ and then taking over the freq with their own CQ. Also, recently (even now on 20M) - the total mis-use of the Fox and Hound mode. Use of this mode, in the normal FT8 freq band is a published restriction. Use by non rare dx is also restricted. Yet, PJ4P has been using it continuously for days. Bonaire is NOT rare and they are using it in the normal FT8 bands thereby creating excessive QRM and taking large portions of the band.
As an avid user of FT8, I continuously see abuses (not unusual these days in the ‘me society’)
Long winded but I support the idea of an FT8 Guide on the website and would like it expanded to operational guidelines as well.

Frank KA1AF

Note: The ‘official’ FT8 Fox and Hound User guide is at
 https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/FT8_DXpedition_Mode.pdf <https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/FT8_DXpedition_Mode.pdf>

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