Needed a couple more Es hops for US west coast folks to participate! We may have to wait for the F layer to light up for that path to work for us though.
I appreciate your recommendation of FT4 for these snapshot openings, and that raises a question: Does it make sense to try using ISCAT for this? Some of the E layer patches seem so small and fast-moving it is almost like a meteor burn. 73, Paul K6PO On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 6:16 PM Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know that like me, some of you enjoyed today's excellent multi-hop > sporadic E opening across the Atlantic. It was an excellent test of the > original design goals of FT8, and more recently also FT4. > > Over a span of several hours I completed 76 QSOs with European stations. > Of these 37 were with FT8 on 50.313 (mostly) or 50.323 MHz. The > remaining 39 QSOs used FT4 on 50.318, and took place in just 44 minutes. > > I strongly recommend that for such openings in the future you should try > FT4. It's twice as fast as FT8, with only a 3 dB penalty on the AWGN > channel. The sensitivity penalty is even less on a fading channel. > > Today's conditions also provided an excellent chance to take advantage > of good operating practices. As recommended, most European stations > transmitted "in the "1st/Even" sequence in both FT4 nd FT8. North > American stations transmitted in second sequence. This procedure > minimizes QRN from strong local stations and helps everyone to work DX. > > -- 73, Joe, K1JT > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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