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Call Sign : 43-CT-016 Posts : 369 Times Thanked : 22 Join date : 2019-11-17 QTH or Location : Perth Equipment Used : iCom IC-7610/IC-9700/IC-705 Age : 55
Subject: Who's active on FT8? Tue May 25, 2021 11:33 am
The last couple of weeks or so I've seen 15m and 20m really open up from VK...regular contacts into Eastern Europe, France, Spain, etc. but never seen a UK call!
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Sydthecat CT Directors
Call Sign : 2E0VRX Posts : 776 Times Thanked : 47 Join date : 2019-06-26 QTH or Location : Yorkshire dales Equipment Used : Yaesu FTdx 101d, MD200 mic ,Mosley 3ele Yagi Age : 59
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Tue May 25, 2021 5:34 pm
Hi Jeff
Am very active on 20 15 and 10m but not been working VK since autumn last year but I did work Indonesia yesterday on 20m so maybe it could soon open up a little further
Cheers
Craig 2e0vrx
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Call Sign : 43-CT-016 Posts : 369 Times Thanked : 22 Join date : 2019-11-17 QTH or Location : Perth Equipment Used : iCom IC-7610/IC-9700/IC-705 Age : 55
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Wed May 26, 2021 12:20 am
Sydthecat wrote:
Hi Jeff
Am very active on 20 15 and 10m but not been working VK since autumn last year but I did work Indonesia yesterday on 20m so maybe it could soon open up a little further
Cheers
Craig 2e0vrx
Seeing the European stations this regularly is a recent thing for me, so fingers crossed.
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Ivy Mike Major contributor
Call Sign : 26CT4113/G1HWY Posts : 536 Times Thanked : 15 Join date : 2021-05-16 QTH or Location : IO90uv Equipment Used : ICOM radios/antenna farm Age : 69
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Wed May 26, 2021 4:02 am
FT8/FT4 is my main activity when in the shack.
I often hear a few VKs on various bands but cannot always get them to hear me. It's the same for a lot of Oceania but then my setup and location is not the best.
My last VK was VK7MHZ on 40metres back in February.
BTW this time of year, end of April thru to August most of my time is spent chasing DX on 70MHz
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43CT016 Major contributor
Call Sign : 43-CT-016 Posts : 369 Times Thanked : 22 Join date : 2019-11-17 QTH or Location : Perth Equipment Used : iCom IC-7610/IC-9700/IC-705 Age : 55
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Wed May 26, 2021 9:01 am
Ivy Mike wrote:
BTW this time of year, end of April thru to August most of my time is spent chasing DX on 70MHz
We don’t get 4m here, but regardless, it’s almost winter so our Sporadic E season has well and truly gone.
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43CT016 Major contributor
Call Sign : 43-CT-016 Posts : 369 Times Thanked : 22 Join date : 2019-11-17 QTH or Location : Perth Equipment Used : iCom IC-7610/IC-9700/IC-705 Age : 55
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Mon Jun 07, 2021 6:50 am
First UK call on ft8 this afternoon. M6 call too, so he won't have been running much power. Mind you, 20m is buzzing here today.
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:33 am
Nice one Jeff.
If they were running low power that's a good catch. (I could receive Australia on FT8 but could never get back.)
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43CT016 Major contributor
Call Sign : 43-CT-016 Posts : 369 Times Thanked : 22 Join date : 2019-11-17 QTH or Location : Perth Equipment Used : iCom IC-7610/IC-9700/IC-705 Age : 55
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:44 am
Victor wrote:
Nice one Jeff.
If they were running low power that's a good catch. (I could receive Australia on FT8 but could never get back.)
I only usually run 30w myself on digital modes, and way less on WSPR.
I also snagged a Japan call in Antartica, to go with the VK0 I was chatting to last week, so it’s been a good day.
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Victor CT Directors
Call Sign : 26-CT-3228 / M7VIC Posts : 6292 Times Thanked : 389 Join date : 2019-11-10 QTH or Location : Bedford Equipment Used : Various
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:50 am
Well done Jeff, I'm suitably impressed.
I may revisit FT8, (if I ever get this FT757 working that is!), and look out for the more challenging DX opportunities.
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43CT016 Major contributor
Call Sign : 43-CT-016 Posts : 369 Times Thanked : 22 Join date : 2019-11-17 QTH or Location : Perth Equipment Used : iCom IC-7610/IC-9700/IC-705 Age : 55
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:00 am
Victor wrote:
Well done Jeff, I'm suitably impressed.
I may revisit FT8, (if I ever get this FT757 working that is!), and look out for the more challenging DX opportunities.
Antartica isn’t really DX for us though, remember….just “down a bit”! Europe is way further.
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Call Sign : 26-CT-1074 / M7MMC Posts : 82 Times Thanked : 6 Join date : 2019-06-28 QTH or Location : Brighton, East Sussex Equipment Used : Icom IC-7300, Lincoln II (V4), Xiegu X6100 Age : 46
Subject: Re: Who's active on FT8? Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:16 pm
I'm active most days on 20/17m during the day, 17m has been very decent for me lately. In fact an absolute fluke happened last week on there, where I worked a small pile up of JA stations on as little as 6 watts. As some of you will know that there's always one or two stations that just pick up every call on the gridtracker map, and that is what happened the day I got to JA. Two stations in the south of the country, just kept picking up the signal and I turned the radio power down to as little as 6 watts and both still got me. Although 5 watts was pushing it - it didn't work.
Worked majority of the JA stations 10w and under.
I also witnessed two other local foundation license holders also working JA on QRP - one of the chaps was using an FT-817 out portable on the South Downs!
During the evening I've been active on 30 & 40m until the early hours and in fact, 30m has been very good for me. Even got into VK on 10 watts.
But yes, most days I'm on FT8 on 17m during the day and 30m at night mostly.