10 Mar 2020

2m FT8

After giving up on the 70cm UKAC contest, I QSYed to 2m FT8.

So far this evening 14 stations in 4 countries have spotted my 10W to the big-wheel omni antenna on 2m FT8.

On 2m FT8 RX nothing yet spotted this evening. I am definitely getting the impression FT8 is less popular than it was. What I think is happening is stations have receivers monitoring 2m FT8, but fewer people are transmitting now.

UPDATE 2130z: Still absolutely nothing spotted on 2m FT8 RX this evening.

UPDATE 2304z: For the first time I can ever remember I spotted not a single station on 2m FT8 RX. There was a kind of pulse noise and I am wondering if this was partly to blame? Now QRT.

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