Soon after I started FT8 in April, I like others wondered why I am sitting in front of the 'tube" listening to the "whales" talk to each other (at least thats what it sound like!). I quickly got bored, but since there really wasn't any good DX floating around, I got addicted to it, just working for WAS, etc.
One day in April, I had an Elmer tell me about /pskreporter/, to use in seeing where I was being heard, etc. One evening when 20M was pretty wide open to the east (AS and EU Russia) and west (Japan, China, VK/ZL), I noticed hams were being reported all around Uzbekistan, one of the dozen remaining entities I need. I looked up on a few websites that had active UK? Uzbekistan hams on the air. There was UK9AA, active and on FT8!!!! I had never heard Uzbekistan in many years and was excited maybe I could work him on FT8. Well, you can guess the rest of the story. I emailed him, Fedor, and we set up a sked, eventually completing the qso on FT8 on 20 meters! With 70 watts at that! Wow, that was easy! Since then, I have worked over 75 countries w/o even trying on the new digital mode! It's still not as exciting as grabbing a rare on on CW, but it sure gives one another tool to work the rare one! ----- Roger W5RDW -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.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
