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The contempt for FT8 is that it's more or less exclusively a contesting mode. Essentially all you can do with it is ping other users. Many hams find contesting
by nullc 7y ago
The contempt for FT8 is that it's more or less exclusively a contesting mode. Essentially all you can do with it is ping other users.
Many hams find contesting traffic to be a nuisance.
- sliken 7y agoHeh, indeed. With minor tweaks (I've seen the patches floating around) making contacts can be fully automated. It's much like the early days of the internet when people would tail -f /var/log/http/access.log and keep track of how many countries contacted their webserver. At least there's not a js8call which gasp actually allows keyboard to keyboard chat. Even allows relaying through a 3rd party as well as async communications through a storage and forward process.