John,
A WSPR
transmission for the same length of time would gather much more usefuly
information than calling CQ with no hope of hearing any replies?
I think it all depends on what we expect to get out of our amateur
radio activity. What would a WSPR signal reveal other than that what
everybody who ever had talked to the marine guys already knew: that a
MF signal can be heard a few thousand miles away.
Here we have a group of people setting up a fieldday station
under less than optimal conditions, not experienced with MF operation
at all yet - and had trouble to receive - so what? How long did it take
us "experienced" guys to be where we are today? Did it really kill some
'valuable' QSOs tonight that we will never have another chance to have
again? Just relax, the band is still there tomorrow, sooner or later we
will all have contacted each other numerous times, in CW, WSPR, QRSS or
whatever mode.
By the way: I had a QSO with Bert, DF2PI who was operating
DK0SWF this evening, and I was able to hear and feel his excitement to
explore a new band.
Did we all forget on how we started, on how we had to make our
own experiences when we began and what fun we had?
73
Geri, DK8KW & DI2BO
