I can appreciate the technology behind modes such as FT-8 but for me, regardless of whether it be CW, Phone, or a digital mode a meaningful QSO results in me knowing some small amount of information about another ham that I didn't know otherwise. Clicking on a call sign and then, mostly automatically, having the computers complete the QSO just doesn't get my motor running.
Tim N9PUZ On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Al Lorona <alor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I wrote an April Fool's article back in like 1999 (I might still be able > to find it on dejanews) describing a make-believe ARRL contest which was > totally automated; contesters could come home from work and peruse their > logs to see what stations their computers had 'worked' that day. When > parody becomes reality, it's no longer funny. I'm chagrined that that > fictitious day appears to have finally arrived. > FT8 is just a phase. It is the mode du jour, the next in a long parade of > digital modes that stretches back to AMTOR and packet. This too, shall > pass, to be replaced with the Next Big Mode, which in turn will pass and be > replaced. In the meantime, there hasn't been a single CW signal in the > morning on 40 meters so I can test out my new homebrew FD rig. It's very > depressing. > Al W6LX > > From: Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> > To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Cc: "k...@yahoogroups.com" <k...@yahoogroups.com>; > elecraft...@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 8:47 AM > Subject: [Elecraft] Boldly OT: 6 meter Sporadic-E season and the FT-8 > microjuggernaut > > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 alor...@sbcglobal.net > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 tim.n9...@gmail.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
