I watched Ed’s talk anout the WW digi contest. I had the following thought, which may be naive. I’m new to the list so maybe this has already been suggested and rejected , but here goes....
I understand why we don’t want numerous contesters doing F/H. But It occurs to me that another way to make multiple Qs in a given time slot would be to double the rate , as FT4 did relative to Ft8. I.e instead of two signals in parallel, have two in series at twice the rate. Two such “Ft2” Qs could fit in one FT4 slot and four could fit in one ft8 slot. Of course it would mean running a parallel decoder (or two). Or perhaps a single decoder could be looking for 1x, 2x and 4x at the same time. There would be a sacrifice in SnR but that happens with Fox/hound also, as the Transmit power is halved or quartered.and the widening of the skirts would be comparable to ft8->FT4 , not to F/H. Again apologies if this suggestion is silly, has been considered and rejected , or whatever other reason it’s not of interest , but thought I’d throw it out there Dave K6daj _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
