Although I have tried FT8 on 160, 80, 60, 10, 6 and 2m I have never tried this mode on 70cm. I have no idea at all about activity levels or frequencies. I can imagine this band is pretty good for aircraft scatter and probably quite good on tropo. I'd hazard a guess that 70cm FT8 might be as good as 2m (or even better) given decent levels of activity. In reality, I expect 70cm is much, much quieter than 2m FT8.
If you know anything about this mode on 70cm please let me know. I am happy to sit on 70cms FT8 all day and all evening, mostly RX. For antennas I'd either have to use my 2m big-wheel horizontal omni (not ma bad match on 70cm) or my V2000 vertical. For aircraft reflection, the V2000 is proably better, although not for tropo.
8 Mar 2019
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I've tried FT8 on 70cm quite a few times and made 1 whole contact so far.
Frequencies I've found are 432.175 to 432.178 MHz.
Koos PE4KH
Koss - thank you. I guess this is 432.174MHz USB then. May give it a try tomorrow. 73s Roger G3XBM
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