To me, the reality is FT8 is no matter how someone spins it, using a tiny part of the spectrum. A reality is few there are using power with FT8, my Cook Island contact with FT8 was with something like 40 or so watts and to many using FT8, that is high power.
As I see it, here's what'll happen when people start landing in the middle of the FT8 spectrum and jumping all over those there using it; you'll see the FT8 power increase as is necessary to maintain communications & you'll have 1500 watt FT8 signals that will be in multiple simultaneous transmissions that you can't notch out with the manual or auto notch. It will ruin your contest to stay there. Bottom line is the guy parked there on CW (my favorite mode) will either stay there to make some kind of point and forfeit the contest (a'la cutting his nose to spite his face), or they'll do the smart thing and move a couple KHz away to a clear frequency and enjoy the contest without irritation. 73, Gary KA1J > I think you are missing the larger issue here. It is not *just* 2.5 > Khz out of 1800-2000. > > Consider that many folks have directional antennas that are cut for > the lower part of the band - typically covering 1800-1860 at best. So > - that 2.5 Khz starts to represent at least 4 percent of the available > usable band - possibly more. Some DX cannot operate below 1805 or > higher, which makes the band that much smaller, and that 2.5 Khz > starts to represent an even bigger chuck of prime spectrum. For FT-8 > users expecting a QRM experience this weekend, I wish them well... > > Tom - VE3CX > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Greg <n...@windstream.net> wrote: > > > Jeez -- enough already...how difficult is it to avoid 2.5 khz of > > bandwidth that is not even in the DX portion of the band! Leave FT8 > > alone and fight the QRM below 1835. 73, Greg-N4CC > > > > _________________ > > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband