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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">and up, join The New England Weak Signal group.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://newsvhf.com/">N.E.W.S. - Home (newsvhf.com)</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Jim N1HTS</span>
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On 08/14/2024 10:36 AM EDT Jwahar Bammi via bars <bars@w1hh.org> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Another good way to test your 2M setup is to join the local 2M net at 8 PM on Mondays on 144.195 USB</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> 73 de ws1m</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Bammi</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> bars <bars-bounces@w1hh.org> <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Jim Idelson<br><strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, August 14, 2024 10:23 AM<br><strong>To:</strong> John Flood <kb1fqg@yahoo.com><br><strong>Cc:</strong> mmra@groups.io; w1hh <bars@w1hh.org><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [bars] [mmra] FT8 on VHF?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Make a sked with someone to see how it goes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are you using a horizontally or vertically polarized antenna? Omnidirectional or directional? How high?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You probably want a horizontally polarized antenna to be compatible with other stations on the band.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have a rotatable directional antenna, you need to have a sense for the beamwidth so you know how accurately the antenna needs to be pointed at the other station. If you're calling cq, you want to be pointed to a place where a reply is likely to come from. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good luck! </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">73 Jim K1IR</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 08:26 John Flood via bars <<a href="mailto:bars@w1hh.org">bars@w1hh.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">No i don't use Ft8. I wonder if you are just out of range for the signals that are there.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: #6d00f6;">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 5:05 AM, Juan Jiménez</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Roboto; color: #6d00f6;"><<a href="mailto:k1cpr@bd5.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">k1cpr@bd5.com</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying an experiment here to see if I can actually do FT8 on 2m, since the WSJT-X software allows that, but even though I see activity on DXHEAT I can't see any signals at all.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do I have to do anything special on the radio or the software to get this to work?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">73,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Juan</p>
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