OH SO TRUE ======================== de N2MLP Brian Monroe County PA ========================

Spark operators: "CW is the end of ham radio" CW operators: "AM is the end of ham radio" AM operators: "SSB is the end of ham radio" SSB operators: "FM is the end of ham radio" FM operators:

Mike — that is true but I believe ‘most’ use a combination of macros and free text. I always use free text as much as possible. I only have several macros I use: Signal report, QTH name, etc;

CQ’ING ON 6 NOW ======================== de N2MLP Brian Monroe County PA ========================

Amen Jerry — I’ll not be using FT8 as a normal mode but only if things are so rough and I get desperate that I just want to make a contact!!! Dan Morris KZ3T dbmorris315@... I live to live for

I’m with Mike — How can they be rude when there is such a short exchange and nothing else. that is not a mode to be holding conversations for sure. So far, I’ve only made about 10 contacts

DXMaps still showing lots of activity along the East Coast. Finally got down to EL98 and EL88. Now if we can only get down to EL87. Calling CQ on 50,290 +1,500 HZ at 23:00 UC Tune

Reminds me of the old 10-10 QSO Parties where people would stop in the middle of things to ragchew. Who cares if we won, we had fun ! jerry n9avy

In fn21 ======================== de N2MLP Brian Monroe County PA ========================

My secret to successful PSK ragchew is Dragon Dictate. The mic plugs into the audio in on the sound card and doesn’t tie up a USB. Click in the text box and talk away. It’s easier than typing. My

I generally try to work a bit outside the macros, especially if it is a fellow 070 club member. But yes the general rule is that you are courteous of the other ham's time and respond according. Heck,

I had a contact yesterday where I went outside my macros with just simple comment on the other op's rig working well. Lo and behold, he replied in kind. Long story short - we chatted for over an

Rare DX is just that and pity the poor DX station who has to contend with a million or so hams who NEED that contacts and are not very mannerly in getting that contact. The DX station doesn't have to

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Is it any different than using a computer to log thousands of CW contacts in a contest or the quick 5NN 73 with a rare DX Inna pile up? Martin

But PSK is the same thing if you’re using MACRO’S 100% ======================== de N2MLP Brian Monroe County PA ========================

It was an interesting comment I found on FB and just thought I'd pass it along FWIW. Just had a QSO on 2m this morning with a good friend and the subject of FT-8 came up. He's made a bunch of