FT8 73

If you’re dead set on always getting a “73” at the end of every QSO on FT8 mode, to the point that you’re unwilling to confirm a contact because of that, you’re wrong.

73 is keeping in good etiquette, or perhaps, it’s simply a platitude. It is not however, part of the conversation that constitutes a completed QSO. Get over it. Move on. Stop living in the past. Callsigns, Grid, TX Signal Report, RX Signal Report. Done.

FT8, by design, is meant to be a super quick form of communicating and passing the bare minimum of information in order to confirm contacts, it’s not rag chewing. It’s not a round-table. It’s not a net.