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WA2VUY

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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #75 on: January 21, 2023, 07:55:50 AM »


Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in what was a 154 game season,  Maris was in a 162 game season. The * was to note there was a difference in the length of season. The dx "season" has changed, just like a difference between 7O6T and TN8K.

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Another conclusion: record keepers need to start using an * to denote lopsided FT totals in lists.

That was done in baseball for Roger Maris' 61 home run year.

It is now widely viewed as a mistake and there are no asterisks for the bigger numbers that came later (even the ones that were known or likely to be 'roid enhanced).

Besides, usually, the minority group (and sorry, FT8 haters are that groups) tend not to set the standards.

Time to wake up and smell the coffee.  The "jihad" against FT8 is a miserable failure.
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K6OK

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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #76 on: January 21, 2023, 09:06:59 AM »

How about an asterisk on thread titles to signify they've been ruined by the same old repetitive anti-FT mode arguments?

I'll just say this to TN8K: thank you for an excellent DXpedition.  The operators, the band management, propagation awareness, the use of the Clublog Livestream and the near real-time Clublog uploads were all top notch.  Bravo gentlemen!

73 Jim K6OK
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KE4KY

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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #77 on: January 21, 2023, 09:40:23 AM »


I'll just say this to TN8K: thank you for an excellent DXpedition.  The operators, the band management, propagation awareness, the use of the Clublog Livestream and the near real-time Clublog uploads were all top notch.  Bravo gentlemen!

73 Jim K6OK

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K0UA

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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #78 on: January 21, 2023, 10:59:16 AM »

How about an asterisk on thread titles to signify they've been ruined by the same old repetitive anti-FT mode arguments?

I'll just say this to TN8K: thank you for an excellent DXpedition.  The operators, the band management, propagation awareness, the use of the Clublog Livestream and the near real-time Clublog uploads were all top notch.  Bravo gentlemen!

73 Jim K6OK

X2 on all counts.
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Re: TN8N - CONGO
« Reply #79 on: January 21, 2023, 09:01:11 PM »

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Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in what was a 154 game season,  Maris was in a 162 game season. The * was to note there was a difference in the length of season.

Yes, yes,  I know that. But that's about 1/10 of the story. There was a pretty good book written about "The Asterisk".  IIRC, that was even the book's title.  The 154 versus 162 games was the excuse they gave, but a lot more was going on than that.  Enough to fill a book, in fact.

In the end, they gave up on the whole idea of asterisks in the record books for 154 versus 162 game seasons.  They never had asterisks in the NFL even though the length of the season has slowly but surely expanded since the 1960s.

Like the anti-FT8 "jihad" the whole asterisks thing was a failure and you won't see it again.
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