Leave it on and be amazed!

You’ve paid for it, so you may as well use it. Let it run! You never know what you are going to catch.

I am talking about parking your receiver on FT8 frequency, and letting it decode overnight – or over a week.

The more obscure the band, the better.

Yesterday, I tuned to 6m band early in the morning – and then went on with daily stuff.

When I got back in the afternoon, the screen was overflowing with decodes. Bizarrely, all coming from just one station: JI1CUL. No other Japanese decoded – despite the fact that there are literally hundreds of JA’s on 50.313MHz.

Literally, a point-to-point opening. Six meters band is weird.

However, what caught my attention was the frequency drift of JI1CUL’s signal. He drifted lower than 12Hz over 12 minutes.

Who knows why…

Again, let your receiver run and decode, and let those decodes upload online. It may be provide valuable data to fellow chasers, alerting them to an opening. Who knows, you could be the only station on the band, and end up catching a really big fish.