Jim,
The point is to DEVELOP skills at the lowest end and to ensure that what
we have behaves even more easily than it does for us. The point of these
licenses is to encourage. Some of the behaviour of a few of our own is not
inviting and welcoming; some even believe and sustain arguments
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:03 PM David Gilbert
wrote:
>
> If WSJT used unique non-descriptive three letter/number combinations,
> there would easily be enough to cover every county in the United States and
> probably all of the rest of the world as well. I.E., AAA, D9Y, 5V7,
> etc. After a
Um, what? Of course skill is required at the lowest levels. Isn't that the
point? To develop a pool of skilled radio operators? How far do you want to
dumb it down?
73
-Jim
NU0C
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:38:50 +
Stephen Ireland wrote:
> So ... if skill is required at the lowest of leve
Dave,
You can't look at it as a simple case of 15 bits, you have to look at
the bit size for each set of characters. This is the reason why FD
requirements can be met in the 77 bits, but the 'winter' field day
cannot. The winter field day uses the same number of characters, but
the bit requ
Personally, I don't see how weak signal work and contesting are ain the
least mutually exclusive. I've done a lot of contesting and being able
to work more weak ones is a huge advantage. Even more relevant, I'm
convinced that the format of FT8/4 encourages a lot more hams to
participate in
