20-06-2019, 09:28 AM
(19-06-2019, 06:18 PM)VK4ADC Wrote: "Hopefully VK6 to ZS or FR will be next."
That assumes there are people at each end (1) transmitting; and (2) receiving; at the relevant times and on the same 2M frequencies !!!
Using FT8 will probably be a lot harder than using WSPR to figure out if propagation exists over the path. The FT8 CQ process may be automated, even the to/from of the full QSO too, but there still has to be an operator there to actually manually log the contact to keep the details. That last bit is not automated.
Exactly. Finding willing VK6 operators is an issue we've faced for a while.
WSPR is also at least 10-12dB more sensitive than FT8, so propagation paths can be probed way before a contact is possible on FT8 or maybe even JT65.
We need a WSPR beacon in ZS or FR as they have in Hawaii which points back to the US West Coast over a 4000km path. They hear the 70cm beacon regularly during openings. Who wants to build it and take a trip?? Or convince some VK6's?