The El Paso ARES group conducted a COMEX on last Saturday, April 16th.
I am pleased to report that Olivia 8-500 (using FLDIGI) was able to make the path between AE5ME and KB5HPT on 30m. The only stations able to make contact were AE5ME and a station 40 miles away from KB5HPT. Band conditions were extremely poor throughout the morning of the exercise. Even PSK31 was barely readable on 14.070 Mhz, which is a rare situation!
This illustrates the need for having a variety of modes and bands to make contacts. While we wouldn't normally use Olivia 8-500 as it only has a throughput of 29 wpm, it allowed a contact to be made when other modes were lost in the static.
--Jeff AE5ME
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