[Moon] call3.txt why?

Peter Sundberg sm2cew at telia.com
Tue Apr 22 21:06:06 CEST 2008


I quote K1JT:

"Anyone who uses JT65 regularly knows that some 95% of all 
QSOs using this mode have no need for the DS algorithm and 
make no use of it at all."

This statement, as written, can only mean that the ones who do need DS
actually make QSO's of less value than non-DS QSO's?  Why is the
functionality available then? 

Facts are:
Most all of the recently achieved DXCC's rely heavily on Deep Search. 
50 MHz EME rely hevily on Deep Search. 
EME DX-peditions rely heavily on Deep Search.

People now take pride in telling how they use JT65, but never use DS. If
the DS concept would have been discussed before launching, would the EME
community have greeted it with open arms then?  Don't think so.

A while back many people were emptying their CALL3.TXT file to stop Deep
Search (on K1JT's suggestion) when they discovered what it was all about.
Only to learn later that they could never switch DS off, when they put a
call in the "To Radio" box they always activated DS.

I appreciate the fact that people using JT65 take pride in not using DS, I
would just like to know why they say that??

73 de Peter, SM2CEW









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