That's impressive, but Collington is a full blown retirement community,
like Sun City here in Arizona. It's not even close to being practical
to do anything similar for the typical retirement home. On the other
hand, a small laptop with a TeamViewer link to a distant club station
running FT8 would put anyone anywhere on the air ... with the added
benefit that FT8/4 doesn't require good hearing or manual dexterity.
JS8, an offshoot of FT8, is even a bit more of a conversational mode.
I've never used it and it doesn't have anything close to the acceptance
that some people have touted it to have, but PSK Reporter does show it
being moderately popular.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/16/2019 9:57 AM, N4ZR wrote:
A spectacular example of how to do this right has been set by PVRCers
at the Collington Continuing-Care retirement community in Prince
George's County MD. See the QRZ lookup for K3CCR. These 5 guys have
demonstrated what can be done, and they're doing it most every weekend.
73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.
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