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Which is best, FT8 or CW?

Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by G4TUT/SK2022, Jan 28, 2020.

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  1. W8UA

    W8UA Ham Member QRZ Page

    Yea! I do! I worked New Zealand on 20 CW in the ARRL DX CW. This afternoon with a 2W radio and a bit of magnet wire I threw up outside on a pvc pipe, I made five contacts around the US on CW...
    Good point though on the "run yer mouth"!!!!
     
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  2. W8UA

    W8UA Ham Member QRZ Page

    Sorry, the radio puts out 5W, but still it is cool to run QRP.
     
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  3. WA7AXT

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    Wait a minute. If ft8 is digital, why not take a morse code message produced with a hand key, or bug, digitally encode it, transmit that digitally encoded signal, receive that digitally encoded signal, and then play it out as morse code after your computer has "decoded it?
    Then we have digitally transmitted morse code messages, that can get through qrm, qrn and weak signal conditions with low power better than "analog cw signals"? Would it not be much easier to do that than trying to digitally process the human voice? Ham radio is about experimentation. What's wrong with trying this idea? Ahhh, but wait, that requires knowing morse code. Dang!!!!!!!!!
     
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  4. WN1MB

    WN1MB Ham Member QRZ Page

    I'd like to watch you make toast. I bet it's an absolute hoot. ;)
     
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  5. KA2RRK

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    The real question and key to this is hidden. Portable activation, has hints to if I've been sitting on concrete...

    Well, perhaps.

    Now if portable activation for some reason not planned for, occurs. Say you end up incarcerated.
    Is FT-8 going to save you?

    RRK
     
  6. KI7HSB

    KI7HSB Ham Member QRZ Page

    We already do something like that... we call it "text messaging"
     
  7. WA7AXT

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