This weekend it's the digimode fest test, if you pardon the rough terminology.
Surprised to see not an awful lot of activity. More surprising was the entrenched use of 'obvious' modes like PSK-31/63 and, occasionally, 125. I heard only one station - one - using Hellschreiber, and nobody using the QSB-robust ROS mode.
There are, of course, plenty of other digimodes that are available, many of which cut through QSB like a knife through butter. For some strange reason, nobody is using them. Why? Why struggle with 80% loss of intelligibility with PSK sometimes, when ROS or FHSS ROS would come through smelling of roses? It's a mystery. But there's clearly a large body of hams out there with closed minds when it comes to which digimodes to use.
How very odd!
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