Sorry WO7R but 50% of the Qs are not FT8. Just 50% of the Clublog posted Qs are FT8.
A couple of years ago, I put that myth to the test that Clublog data represents all Qs activity and it failed miserably. 75% of the Qs I made CQing for an hour on CW and then on SSB were not stations that upload to Clubliog. And I don't upload to clublog. It was over 100 stations on a weekend. I do about 20,000 contest Qs a year and none of them are posted on clublog. And this data says that much of that activity is not posted by the other side either.
Sorry, but you misunderstand how Clublog works.
It is quite true that not everyone subscribes to Clublog.
It is not true that such people do not appear in their data. When I work DX1DX and upload it to Clublog, DX1DX appears in the data. DX1DX may despise Clublog for all I know; doesn't matter. The station is there.
Before you dismiss Clublog data on this wise, you have to show that there is a bias towards FT8. You have to show Clublog isn't a representative sample.
And that's hard to do. Your log, by itself, doesn't do that.
For instance, the data goes back to
before FT8 was invented. A lot of the trends visible before FT8 are still visible afterwards.
One I happen to know about is this: There is much more SSB and CW activity on weekends than during the week. Presumably, that is the influence of contesting (if one troubles to look at the really major contest days, one can see FT8 usage, in relative terms at least, goes down).
Meanwhile, contrary to your own confident assertion you
do appear in Clublog. No doubt there are many of your QSOs missing, but there are also many that are present. Every time you worked someone who is a Clublog member,
they uploaded
you. So, surprise, you are there after all. How do I know? They have a huge "super check partial" file that covers all QSOs they get. They filter it, too; to make that very large file you have to have been uploaded at least 40 times in the last three years. So, the vast majority of busted calls are not going to make the cut. Yours did, though.
The valid objection, if it can be levied, is that because the Clublog set is a sample, that it is somehow biased toward FT8.
For instance, what about those that uploaded you? Are the fraction of your calls that appear greater or lesser than they should be?
That kind of thesis is also hard to sustain. Before Clublog, RTTY, PSK31 and a big category they labelled "other" represented digital QSOs. Both before and after FT8 was introduced, they represented a small fraction of the QSOs.
However, nobody knew they were going to like FT8 more than any digital mode ever was. And, there was a good year or three just before FT8 was introduced where people did sometimes work JT65. Clublog never showed it as a huge factor and by all accounts I recall, it wasn't. Six minutes a QSO was a patience tester and besides, for some of the more difficult propagation, six minute QSOs were a double-edged sword. Those that work 6m DX know exactly what I'm talking about. If there was some sort of "pro" WSJT-X bias in the data, one presumes it would have shown up starting with the JT65 "era". If so, it was
very slight.
Earlier DXpeditions that used it had FT8 around 20 per cent. The large scale ones still do. But, the smaller expeditions lately have had FT8 fractions more consistent with the overall claims Clublog makes.
All the way around, I have trouble coming up with a thesis that can support the idea that the various fractions between the modes have any pro-FT8 bias or even an anti-FT8 bias. I haven't ever found any suggestion of it in the data. It may be there, but it's hard to tease out.
Nor would one expect it
a priori. People use Clublog or they don't. I don't know of any reliable indicator that the Clublog population is different than the ham population as a whole. If you can devise one, we can talk about it and figure out how to correct the data.
But look at the data first. I find it very difficult to construct a thesis that suggests a mode bias of any kind in that data.
For instance, in the "good" side of it, CW has hardly fallen off. The mode that really took it on the chin was SSB.
If you go by the anecdotes on eHam, you would think that those that use FT8 are hopeless video game players that couldn't possibly pick up a CW key. But, the data is highly suggestive that this isn't true. They may put down their microphones a bit more, but that's the main trend the data supports.
The fact that you don't upload means absolutely nothing.