FW: FT8 Field day

[drz1953 at yahoo.com]

From: drz1953 at yahoo.com <drz1953 at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 20:25
To: 'Alex Fraser' <beatnic at comcast.net>
Subject: RE: FT8 Field day

 

Alex,

Ft-8 WOULD ABSOLUTELY BE UN-SAFE IN A CAR/MOBILE. IF YOU ARE DRIVING YOU WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE SCREEN. YOUR EYES WOULD NOT BE ON THE ROAD.  At the Alexandria/Arlington FDI!,  I instructed and watched over 15 DIFFERENT people, We did over 200 contacts. With-in certain guidelines,  FT-8 contest mode is automated to a certain extent. You will still need to look at the screen for options in the program. and to check for other stations. You have to tell it you want to contact another station. Then, the auto-response takes over and you have to tell FT-8 at the end of the Contact to log the contact. You also only have a 15 second cycle before it flips to transmit or receive. Automation takes over and does this.

Al/ K4ZB

 

From: Tacos <tacos-bounces+drz1953=yahoo.com at amrad.org <mailto:tacos-bounces+drz1953=yahoo.com at amrad.org> > On Behalf Of Alex Fraser
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 16:41
To: tacos at amrad.org <mailto:tacos at amrad.org> 
Subject: FT8 Field day

 

At the two sites I visited while working mobile I heard  how they were using FT8 in the contest.  I had to look it up on the web.
I wish I'd heard of it before hand as that would be a great mode for mobile operations, I could concentrate on driving and wouldn't have to 
pull over to make entries in my log.  New technology promulgates so quickly, it is less than 3 years old and it is taking over!
I will have to start playing with it.  It would be great to get it running on one of my RP3's.

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