As I am busy setting up with 10m FT8 on the IC-705, it is unlikely I shall be testing on 8m FT8 today. Maybe at teatime?
It would appear that by Es my QRP 8m FT8 signal can be widely copied across Europe. Unlike many of the better equipped stations on 8m, I have not been copied outside Europe.
UPDATE 1245z: On 8m FT8 QRP TX on 40.680.
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Well almost two weeks since getting my 40mhz T&I licence, I have been wspring 1 watt to a dipole daily and had not a single spot! I had that rare FT8 contact on my first day and saw your transmissions too, but since then, almost nothing. Yet on 10m and 6m, i am getting and receiving spots. This seems a strange band, more affected by aircraft scatter, as I sometime see bits of strong signals, but not enough to decode. I see lots of activity on pskreporter, but the signals just seem to go right over my head without me hearing them.
This is like my early days of 2m operation, nothing until I discovered the yagi.
73 Ken g4apb
One of the issues is there are fewer people monitoring on 8m than on 10m and 6m. Most in Europe are on 40.680 MHz USB dial FT8. With 15 second TX periods this give better chances than the longer WSPR overs. I think my QRP and low dipole don't help as I am spotted far less often and less far than the better stations with more power and beams.
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