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My thoughts on FT8

Gerald-K5SDR
Gerald-K5SDR FlexRadio Employee ✭✭
edited June 2020 in FLEX-6000 Signature Series
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  • N3RC
    N3RC Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Dave - W6OVP
    Dave - W6OVP Member ✭✭
    edited August 2019
  • Bob K8RC
    Bob K8RC Member ✭✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Russ K5OA
    Russ K5OA Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Check out JS8 Call. All of the weak signal performance of FT8, but you can have an actual QSO.
  • WA5GP
    WA5GP Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    But you cant get to the software with out belonging to that group, so what good is that...
  • Russ K5OA
    Russ K5OA Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    FOUND THE SITE

  • KF4HR
    KF4HR Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Digital Ham
    Digital Ham Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • NX6D Dave
    NX6D Dave Member ✭✭
    edited December 2019
  • Digital Ham
    Digital Ham Member ✭✭
    edited December 2019
  • Craig Williams
    Craig Williams Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Digital Ham. Boring. Need to PTT.
  • NX6D Dave
    NX6D Dave Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Terry K8EET
    Terry K8EET Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Great points, Gerald. JT8 has arrived at the right time. This weekend I had a 9+ noise level on 30 meters right where JT8 should have been.  As it turned out, I worked a steady stream of stations right through the noise. I'm confident JT8 won't **** ham radio. However, I'm still looking forward to getting out of the bottom of the cycle and getting back to the more challenging modes.
  • K3SF .
    K3SF . Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Neil D Friedman N3DF
    Neil D Friedman N3DF Member ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2019
    Need to type fast.  Next FT8 cycle on 40M might bring a call I need.
  • Ned K1NJ
    Ned K1NJ Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
       FT8 is another beginning.  I look forward to what will come next.

                              Ned,  K1NJ
  • Brian Morgan VK7RR
    Brian Morgan VK7RR Member ✭✭
    edited December 2018
  • DH2ID
    DH2ID Member ✭✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Thank you for the info, Lawrence! I've downloaded and installed JS8call. The problem seems to be that there are not many stations  using this mode - yet.
  • Burt Fisher
    Burt Fisher Member ✭✭
    edited June 2020
    FT8 exemplifies the direction of ham radio.
  • Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    It is still being developed.  There are a number of users on 20 and 40.  It you have beacon enabled, this will often result in a QSO.
  • Bob G W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited June 2020
    Very well said Gerald. As far as I'm concerned SSB DX is dead until the sunspots return. The prediction for sunspots returning is about 5-6 years from now according to NOAA. If it were not for FT8 and the other digital modes HAM radio would die. 
  • W7NGA
    W7NGA Member ✭✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Mike W9OJ
    Mike W9OJ Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Good, bad or ugly?
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
    FT8 does have it's place, another mode. But it used to be that Ham radio was seen as an human interaction activity. My how things are changing.
  • Bob G W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    Today it's very difficult to make a contact within the continental US. The propagation is good when you start the contact and fades in the middle of the QSO. Not good. Today there is no such thing as human interaction - smartphones texting very similar to FT8 or any other digital mode.
  • Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
    The software is publicly available.  The group is just for sharing and reporting issues to the developer.
  • Gene - K3GC
    Gene - K3GC Member ✭✭
    edited October 2018
  • Ken - NM9P
    Ken - NM9P Member ✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
  • Bill -VA3WTB
    Bill -VA3WTB Member ✭✭✭
    edited October 2018

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