And yet we see books from Steve Ford showing GOTA. Now people are saying the same thing about FT8. Recalling some of the old timer's who wrote in magazines and even comments at local clubs about when SSB came out. When the band seemed dead during the contests I still managed to make a contact on HF and also 6m and 2m. I been running the FT8 program for a few years now and its a very easy program to run, in fact I found once where I left the room to get coffee and found it made a contact and even was on stand by for logging the contact.īefore FT8 I ran the JT65, JT9 and others on the bands like 80, 30,20 and 17m and made maybe 1000 contacts. Feel free to contact me with any requests for video coverage of a topic for which you'd like more information. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, the NW7US Worldwide Radio Communications YouTube Channel. Thus, this video is a demonstration of my use of HRD's Logbook module, during a recent FT8 QSO. Ham Radio Deluxe logs (with the HRD Logbook module) the digital modes of FT8, JT65A, and JT9 digital communicatons implemented by WSJT-X, via the JT-Alert software. The software that I used, as listed in the video, consists of three software suites interconnected: The sound card is interfaced to the radio (in my case, using an optical coupling circuit). The computer and software encodes and decodes by way of a sound card. In this video demonstration, the mode in use is known as the FT8 digital mode). The computer, with the aid of the modem software (in this case, WSJT-X) has the job of encoding and decoding the information using the protocol of the mode. This demonstration video illustrates one marriage between a modern HF transceiver (in this demonstration, the rig is an Icom IC-7000) that is controlled by a computer running control software, in this case, Ham Radio Deluxe). Even now-and especially now-amateur radio is at the cutting edge of engineering and experimentation.ĭemonstration by NW7US of Ham Radio Deluxe logging an FT8 QSO It is active with a wealth of newer technologies and modes, especially digital modes. The world of amateur radio on the shortwave spectrum (from 3 MHz to 30 MHz-the 'high-frequencies', or, 'HF') is still alive.
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