"and are fully aware of the caveats about making sure that callers know
how to work them etc. then their brave attempt to try out an as yet
unpolished feature"
And yet these 'brave' DXers landed smack on top of the PSK band. Great
job, geniuses.
Mike
WM4B
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Bill Somerville wrote:
On 14/03/2018 10:24, James Shaver (N2ADV) wrote:
TY7C should not have even been using DXPedition Mode.
Hi Jim,
why not?
https://ty2018dx.wordpress.com/
and check their QRZ.COM page.
They are not some random OM playing with FT8 DXpedition mode on the
normal FT8 sub-bands. Benin may not be in the top 10 most wanted list
but that's fine. If a DXpedition team want to try out FT8 DXpedition
mode and are fully aware of the caveats about making sure that callers
know how to work them etc. then their brave attempt to try out an as
yet unpolished feature of WSJT-X is fine. They may lose some QSOs as a
result but they may well provide valuable feedback. It is a little
unfortunate that their operation dates coincide with a version of
WSJT-X (v1.9.0-rc2) that has several known defects, picked up in the
public tests recently, that have been fixed but not yet released.
With respect to Uwe's disappointment, I'm not sure if the F6KOP team
have limited power or are just starting cautiously with only one Tx
slot. They can still potentially complete 120 QSOs/hr with one slot.
Note that using N slots greater than one means reduced power per QSO
with signals being ~14dB down with N slots equal to five. I note in
their blog post that they are having success with FT8 DXpedition mode
but find they are hearing callers better than they are being heard,
possibly as a result of trying N slots > 1.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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