A ham friend, participant on many, many big DXpeditions, and a terrific CW/RTTY
op, presented to our DX club a while back. During the presentation he asked
for a show of hands of those who actually have audio on when operating digital
modes. I raised my hand, since on RTTY I feel that
G'day
FT-8 is so much less labour and operator skill-intensive than CW/SSB that it
has a fatal attraction for DXpeditions - more people can be worked more easily
and more quickly.
Added to this, "He who holds the gold makes the rules" and DXpeditions mostly
hold the gold as we want to work
