The signal processing techniques utilized in FT8 could have been used to
enhance the signal-to-noise of normal CW in a way that would have been
virtually transparent to the operator. It's truly a shame that WSJT-X
has landlocked those techniques within FT8 in the minds of just about
everyone in our hobby, as well as giving those techniques such a bad
image that nobody seems willing to take up the mantle to fix it.
The signal processing technology behind FT8 is awesome, but it is
neither unique nor proprietary. It should have enhanced the hobby for
all of us, especially for us contesters since almost all of our
transmissions come from keypresses in a logging program anyway. Instead
it is being held hostage to WSJT-X for no real reason other than inertia.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 2/18/2022 8:13 AM, James Cain wrote:
I agree with HA3LN that FT-8 is a terrible blow to what an ARRL director
snidely referred to -- on this reflector -- as "our sandbox." Yes, I play
only unassisted and you call it what you want.
A neighbor guy dropped by and I had just set up my Superstation for this
weekend -- a TS590 on a card table and a 11-foot wire dropped out the 2nd
floor window. "I can talk to Europe, South America, maybe even Japan with
this" said I. "On Morse code."
cain K1TN
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