To add insult to injury the signals are not even below the noise floor. Only when calculated against a 3 KHz bandwidth. You can clearly see signals on the P3 that are reporting -25 snr within WSJT-X.
I believe the main selling point is that you can work DXCC in short time with zero personal involvement :) Michael Blake k9...@mac.com <mailto:k9...@icloud.com> > On Jun 1, 2018, at 11:53 AM, David F. Reed <w5sv.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree; the FT-8 thing has had a lot of negative impact; some of the other > modes that take longer, but are weak signal modes were far less > devastating; people used lower power and got along more or less without > interfering too much except with other JT modes... > I think the quick turn part of FT8 contributed to its rapid growth, and the > use of it with high power made it worse. > > I am back to longing for a simple CW contact at a leisurely pace... Back to > my KX2 (serial number 72!) for a little fun on 30 M. > > 73 de Dave, W5SV > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3] < > kx3-nore...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > >> At first I thought it was my receiver. Or my antenna farm, limited in >> scale by a pre-nuptial clause. Or noise caused by the zomboid army of >> switching power supplies oozing inexorably into my personal space. >> >> Nope. >> >> It turns out the dearth of CW and SSB signals on 6 meters at the height of >> 2018 Spring Sporadic-E season can be traced to one factor: the 24-hour >> intravenous rave that is FT-8. >> >> Yeah, I get the whole sub-noise-floor-and-not-automated-(wink)-QSO thing. >> But I’d like to figure out how those of us who enjoy the occasional >> gear-grinding manual-transmission contact can find each other on this brave >> new highway. Ideas? >> >> Wayne >> N6KR >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> Posted by: Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo Groups Links >> >> <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KX3/ >> >> <*> Your email settings: >> Individual Email | Traditional >> >> <*> To change settings online go to: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KX3/join >> (Yahoo! ID required) >> >> <*> To change settings via email: >> kx3-dig...@yahoogroups.com >> kx3-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com >> >> <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: >> kx3-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com >> >> <*> Your use of Yahoo Groups is subject to: >> https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/ >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k9...@mac.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
