[Moon] Moderator, please stop this WSJT vs CW

[Ross Biggar]

I am a newbie in EME, having only started a couple of years ago, when a chance contact on HF suggested that EME was not too difficult.
So I tried and I used WSJT, and the initial contacts were quite exciting, (and still are).
But it was due to WSJT that I was able to have those contacts.
Without that software and the help that has been given on the JT65 reflector, I would not have persevered.

However after a few months I gave up, purely and simply because this group got itself bogged down in the WSJT vs CW argument.
2 years later and you are still at it. Please move on.
This is not a matter of whose is larger or better or whatever.

I have been a ham for 50years, I have been there done that, on contests, so I am now no longer interested in contests and how they are operated.
If you want to be able to sort out what mode should be used, and how it should be operated, then please, please take it to the contest "controller",
please dont continue to argue over the rights, or wrongs of each mode on this group.
I suspect if you polled the Hams doing EME, that the greatest percentage are not interested in contests, they are just interested in the challenge of bouncing a signal off the moon.

The arguments about WSJT and CW, frankly are very similar to the comments that were made years and years ago, when SSB came on the air and the AM stations were shocked at this newcomer. Technology moves on. In fact it is rapidly coming to the point where a computer will do all the work of sending and receiving CW, so it is the same as WSJT.

I can understand both arguments and the emails have been put very rationally, but please  now put it behind you.

Lets have this email group, back to discussing the technical aspects and practical advice, and all the other items that make this part of the Ham radio hobby interesting.

As I am starting to feel like Joe's latest email, and will start to use the delete button on the group, which would be a great pity.
As a matter of interest, it was exactly this WSJT/CW email flood that caused me to lose interest in EME for virtually a year.

For the record, to show I have a put a lot of effort into EME my stations are as follows:
144:  DB6NT transverter, 4x18XXX M2 array, LZ2US amp with up to 2.5kw output
432:   DB6NT transverter  2x31WLA M2 beams, LZ2US amp with up to 2.5kw output
1296: coming this year: DB6NT transverter, 4.5m comercial dish, VE1ALQ feed, and (only) a 500w solid state amp.

Readers please dont flame this email, I have thought for a couple of days about writing something, and Joe's last email prompted this.
EME owes a lot of gratitude to Joe Taylor, as does HF digital to Simon Brown and Patrick Lindecker among others. We all need these people to devote their time and energies to advance ham radio.

best wishes to all EME's
Ross 
ZL1WN
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