On this episode, Christian visits with Jason, W3AAX. Jason is the North American Coordinator of the Worldwide Flora and Fauna program. We also get and introduction to the JT65 mode, and we learn what it was like to learn the code in the military.
VHF
“An amazing new mode for quickly communicating around the world with low power and simple antennas. In this video Jim uses exterior holiday or Christmas Lights as the antenna!” Read more
To commemorate our 3rd anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days from 1. to 31. July 2020. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix, referring to the third anniversary of the FT8 Digital Mode Club. The following stations will be active: An FTDMC Anniversary Award can be […] Read more
WSJT-X co-developer Joe Taylor, K1JT, has announced that major changes are coming to the FT8 and MSK144 digital protocols when WSJT-X version 2.0 arrives in a few months. Taylor said version 2.0 should be ready for prime time by January 2019. “Much of the necessary programming is finished,” Taylor said in a post to the Packrats reflector. “Many […] Read more
J8Call “Howdy Folks, We’ve sure come a long way in the past few weeks. Thanks for sticking with me and enjoying the ride! This release is a pretty big one and I’m very excited to share it with you. Cut to the chase, and head over to the downloads page to grab your copy: https://groups.io/g/js8call/wiki/Download-Links So, […] Read more
“Hi all, Many of us have made many QSOs using the new 77-bit messages on 7.078 and 14.078 MHz. Overall the results have been good — but not surprisingly, bugs are being identified. Several are important enough to warrant a second candidate release well before the originally suggested target date, October 15. We will make […] Read more