Fw: [Moon] Random or scheduled

[peter blair]

> OK Joe, understood, I think that skeds nowadays  are much more often a 
> request from  a small station just starting up with a marginal system who 
> wants to try it out  but only last month we were all surprised by the 
> sudden appearance of a completely new small station F5JWF just coming on 
> 23cm and working guys at random.
> 73 Peter
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Taylor" <joe at Princeton.EDU>
> To: "peter blair" <g3ltf at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Moon] Random or scheduled
>
>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> You're probably right about my "fairly recently" comment; you are 
>> certainly right when it comes to yourself and other well established 
>> stations.  My point was simply to emphasize that scheduled QSOs, even 
>> thought they may involve a much smaller amount of transferred 
>> information, have always been considered as legitimate QSOs.
>>
>> -- Joe
>>
>> peter blair wrote:
>>>  Joe Taylor  K1JT has stated, in a submission to the IARU meeting,  his 
>>> opinion that  " Indeed, until fairly recently scheduled contacts were 
>>> the norm
>>> for nearly all EME work."  Regardless of the issue of JT and digital 
>>> modes, I have to say that  for me " fairly recently " would be at least 
>>> 20 years ago, probably more. Currently I make about 400+ eme QSOs a year 
>>> mainly on 432,1296 and 2320 MHz and I estimate that about 10 of these 
>>> would be skeds. I looked back at my 1983/4 log book and there are indeed 
>>> more skeds but still many more QSOs in there were truely random,  so " 
>>> the norm for nearly all" is wrong as well even 23 years ago. In my view 
>>> the statement is just not correct..... or have I got it wrong? 73 Peter 
>>> G3LTF
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