Title says HF, but I meant "DIGITAL MODE" which can be used on 6 meters as well as HF. At the time of this video, the solar index chart on QRZ shows poor band conditions across the board, high noise level, but I have very strong signals rolling in on FT-8 at 9:23pm in Florida. Has FT-8 taken over the 6 meter band? Check out this short video. SUBSCRIBE to HamRadioConcepts and COMMENT!!!
MHz megahertz [meg-uh-hurts] Examples Word Origin noun, plural megahertz, megahertzes. Electricity. 1. a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/megahertz
Yes, unfortunately the digital modes have taken over six meters recently. 50.125 and the usual phone frequencies are fast becoming a ghost town of sorts. I hope that the novelty of easy dx with silent "computer-to-computer qsos" wears off sooner than later so us old diehards can enjoy more real ham-to-ham qsos again. No 73 to the digital crowd from me! ---Jeff Proudly deplorable phone op in EL18 (that's a fairly rare grid for 6m)
Nothing unfortunate about it. Digital modes are not effecting your phone QSOs at all. Just making use of otherwise dead bands.
Oh, but they are affecting my phone QSOs as well as everyone else's non-digital QSOs---they harken many (especially new) operators further up and away from our trusty watering holes so that far fewer possible contacts are now being made. For a band that is already sparsely populated to begin with it narrows our possibilities tremendously. The small herd is thinning further every day. The propagation maps that spot QSOs have now become misleading since most of those digital spots would not be possible if all the qsos plotted had to be able to be copied by the human ear as well. This affects how I now operate and is discouraging to us that wish to actually converse with our fellow six meter enthusiasts. That, sir is very unfortunate in my book.
You need to go back and read the replies I never mentioned the word "millihertz" was merely giving the correct abbreviation for megahertz would had not taken place in the thread up to my post.
