Keeping with the times the DARC Lecture And Lab for April 25, 2020 has gone virtual! Join us at 11am Central Time from the comfort and safety of your home. This virtual Lab And Lecture we will be presenting an introduction to the popular digital modes FT8/FT4 using WSJT-X. More Details below.
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VHF FT8 Monday’s with NTMS
Passing along an invite: The North Texas Microwave Society is holding an FT-8 informal net on 2 meters (144.174 USB) starting about 7:30 pm central time on all Monday’s. There are some folks on the air prior to that for tuning and band condition checking. This is all done to hopefully increase traffic on 2 meters.
Continue readingDucie Island 2018 DXpedition
Be sure to try and work the Ducie Island 2018 DXpedition and VP6D – Ducie Island is a small tiny island in the South Pacific Ocean that is part of the Pitcairn Islands. The remote expedition runs from Oct 20th – Nov 3 2018.
Microhams Digital Conference 2018 Content
The MicroHAMS Digital Conference 2018 just finished up March 24, 2018. Looking over the content that was presented it sure looked like a fantastic event. No surprise that it was sold out. If you mouse on over to this link: http://www.microhams.com/mhdc/ you can get access to the decks and info that was presented from such contributors like Joe Taylor (K1JT) author of FT8 and Guus van Dooren (PE1PLM) creator of the DVMEGA and several others.
New Digital Mode From K1JT – FT8
Steve(K9AN) and Joe(K1JT) have developed a potential new mode for WSJT-X. They are calling the mode “FT8” (Franke-Taylor design, 8-FSK modulation)
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