Don’t let him discourage you Herb, I think an FT8 contest would be fun. We can discuss it further but won’t do it here…
Cecil K5DL Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Steef PA2A Sent: Friday, January 10, 2020 4:10 PM To: topband@contesting.com; herbert.schoenb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Topband: FT-8 Contest would be great for Topband Herb, the stupid FT8 mode should be ignored by hams owning more than 2 braincells. 73s Steef PA2A I know the purists will flame me for this but look at the frequency conservation this would present and look at the activity statistics for only the past couple of hours, AIf the contest was designed well sub-channels could be recommended for the various continents as Stew Perry use to urge for intercontinental QSO's from 1825-1830. Here are the amazing stats for only two hours. Modes over last 2 hours Mode Count FT8 1549146 FT4 41733 JS8 7895 CW 6894 PSK31 433 JT65 383 OPERA 132 JT9 65 MSK144 37 OLIVIA 22 OLIVIA 8 22 JT6M 18 ROS 14 DOMINO 13 PI4 12 OLIVIA-8 9 PSK63 9 FSK441 8 JT65B 7 WSPR 6 RTTY 5 MT63-500 1 SIM31 1 THOR 1 THOR22 1 PSK 1 CONTESTI 1 What do you think? Herb, KV4FZ _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector