Tim,
I would like to personally encourage all of the top-10 scorers in the
RTTY RU to make the move to FT8. Immediately!
We here in the midwest need all the help we can get and thinning out the
field with a move of the top competitors over to FT8 is a great
idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!
73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com
On 14-Dec-18 1:48 PM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Keep in mind that I write the below from a "Contesters perspective" but
maybe toned down for lower FT8 expectations.
The official flag day for the new 77-bit FT8 messages was Monday Dec 14
with the release of WSJT 2.0.0. Within a day almost all the activity had
flipped over the the new version.
I spent many hours (20+ hours) trying it out, with "RR73" turned on to get
max rates, and it is an improvement. I had also been involved a little bit
with pre-release WSJT software in the mock-contest hours and the "FT8 mock
test" the first weekend of December.
With the new WSJT 2.0.0 FT8, my peak S&P rate approaches one QSO a minute,
my peak run rate approaches one QSO every 90 seconds, and my average rate
over an hour is s 20 or more. It is hard to achieve peak rates on a super
packed busy band like 20M FT8 but on a WARC band or "off peak" band it's
quite achievable.
Contrast that with the old WSJT where my typical FT8 rate in an hour was 8
to 12 QSO's an hour.
Now, in a real RTTY contest, 20 an hour is NOT something to write home
about. It's dullsville, like maybe I should be doing something more fun
like mopping the kitchen floor or raking leaves. But it is a real
improvement for FT8 rate.
I DO NOT PLAN to do ANY FT8 in RTTY Roundup. Again, 20 an hour is a bad
rate if you are trying to enter that competitively.
Tim N3QE
Hardcore RTTY contester
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