The answer to your question ... for the umpteenth time ... is that a mode SIMILAR to FT8 or FT4 but with a different interface and some different parameters could and should be an excellent contestin
Dave, With all due respect there are other lists that are dedicated to digital modes that this subject can be discussed. It doesn't appear that contesting.com has a digital reflector anymore ( see ht
Don, You're exactly right about FT4. Joe probably wrote that code after he hooked up with some contesters (YCCC guys) who wanted to have a faster way to make FT8 contacts during digital contests. Tha
I've corresponded directly with Joe Taylor a few times in the recent past on this subject, and I have the deepest respect for his credentials (yes, I'm fully aware that he is a Nobel Prize laureate)
Author: Henry Pollock - K4TMC <kilo4tmc@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 17:25:31 -0400
As a 69-year-old phone contester with limited time to devote to researching all of the other aspects of the ever-changing ham radio hobby, I was intrigued by the possibility of using the weak signal
Considering the basic website we are spinning off here www.contesting.com has precious little updates since 2017 we are all guilty of living in the past. Perhaps we need to get some of the really goo
Comments below. I never suggested you had to keep to the FT8 or FT4 protocols. What I said was that the design trade-offs of FT8 and FT4 are what gave them their weak-signal performance. Getting the
Thank you for detailing this to a contest forum, Jose, Sad that for some reason people are unable to read what you posted and immediately get offended that they have seen FT8 mentioned. Learning a le
As best I can tell, the Barrett 4050 uses digital signal processing only on the receive end. Instead, modes like FT8 and FT4 use various forward error correction techniques to pre-encode the transmi
Hi guys, <<< ... I was intrigued by the possibility of using the weak signal capabilities of FT8 to convert data to audible CW and voice... > In France, we have an expression that says : "why keep i