{"id":1047,"date":"2019-03-13T09:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:09:43","slug":"ft8-growing-as-dx-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/13\/ft8-growing-as-dx-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"FT8 growing as DX mode&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<h1>FT8 growing as DX mode in era of waning propagation<\/h1>\n<p>ARRL report on a survey by Club Log&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Michael Wells G7VJR<\/strong>\u00a0that shows significant growth in the use of WSJT FT8 during 2018<\/p>\n<p>Wells reported that operators from some 270 DXCC entities were active on FT8 in 2018. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a showing for FT8,\u201d he allowed, pointing out that the figure is close to the computed 287 active DXCC entities.<\/p>\n<p>Wells posits that FT8 may be the only way to stay in the hobby for operators living on small lots and confronting stringent zoning regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Read the ARRL story at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/survey-ft8-growing-as-dx-mode-in-an-era-of-waning-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/survey-ft8-growing-as-dx-mode-in-an-era-of-waning-propagation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proportion of modes used on the air \u2013 2018 update G7VJR<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/g7vjr.org\/2019\/03\/proportion-of-modes-used-on-the-air-2018-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/g7vjr.org\/2019\/03\/proportion-of-modes-used-on-the-air-2018-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT8 growing as DX mode in era of waning propagation ARRL report on a survey by Club Log&#8217;s\u00a0Michael Wells G7VJR\u00a0that shows significant growth in the use of WSJT FT8 during 2018 Wells reported that operators from some 270 DXCC entities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/13\/ft8-growing-as-dx-mode\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}