Guess who’s been on 4m?

 

1st 4m E’s Contact — G4ELI

Congrats Simon. Don't think I saw the mode mentioned. SSB?

Hope to get on 4m myself at some point maybe this summer. Got the kit but no antenna yet. Lump of steel in ground last week ready to take the mast.

Been a very active day for Es on 6m FT8 with huge amount of activity down to Spain and Portugal and 10m still open to South America here on south coast UK even now at well past sunset so things are looking up.

73

Max

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 06:17 PM, Simon Brown wrote:

Guess who’s been on 4m?

 

1st 4m E’s Contact — G4ELI

The EME reflectors have a lot of wasted content concerning preferences for  digital v analogue modes.

I'm disappointed to see it starting up here too......

Charlie DL3WDG

On Sat, 21 May 2022 at 14:10, Larry Horlick <llhorlick@...> wrote:

FT8 and the traditional modes is like the difference between junk food and real food...

Larry

On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 9:11 AM Max <radiomax@...> wrote:

Have love-hate with FT8. Can't help but be amazed by its ability, and often it's the only mode that has any activity on any particular band, and yet it's a strangely hollow mode. Nothing like as satisfying to me as SSB or CW. I prefer a good chat!

For that reason JS8Call has more appeal but not taken the time to set it up. Did take a quick look but found the procedures somewhat baffling, like DMR modes which I also struggle to understand. Like many things to do with amateur radio, there seems quite a lack of "dummies guides" and sometimes seems that those "in the know" like to keep it that way or can't be bothered with a very basic explanation guide for people just starting off in a mode.

Anyway, well done. Might even catch you on 2, 4 or 6 SSB later in the season if I can stop constant stream of interruptions getting in the way of playing with radios. Got a large roll of Heliax that needs pressing in to action!

73

Max

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On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 05:44 AM, Simon Brown wrote:
Actually, I may look at writing my own FT8 / WSJT Mode console later this year.

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WOWWW Simon.... fantastic Christmas gift...
Inside SDRConsole?

On 05/23/2022 7:49 AM Simon Brown <simon@...> wrote:


Hi,

As a program that interfaces to Console or a soundcard. I just do not like the way FT8 is used where the user has no idea which signal he’s connected to, there’s minimal signal information. Sadly far too many people prefer to work FT8 on VHF when signals are more than strong enough for a SSB/CW QSO, so if I’m to join them it’ll be with a FT8 / WSJT console of my own design.

Also, I would like to work Meteor Scatter, so maybe something a bit like my old PSK31 Deluxe / DM780 or whatever it was called where you could decode multiple signals at once.

So – I’ll give this some thought over the next couple of months and yes, there would be TX support.

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Subject: Re: [SDR-Radio] G4ELI on 4m

Simon,

If I use FT8 it would be to check propagation but not for communications.

Have you considered JS8Call? It least you can send some information during the QSO.

Mike N2MS

> On 05/23/2022 7:49 AM Simon Brown <simon@...> wrote:

>

>

> Hi,

>

> As a program that interfaces to Console or a soundcard. I just do not like the way FT8 is used where the user has no idea which signal he’s connected to, there’s minimal signal information. Sadly far too many people prefer to work FT8 on VHF when signals are more than strong enough for a SSB/CW QSO, so if I’m to join them it’ll be with a FT8 / WSJT console of my own design.

>

> Also, I would like to work Meteor Scatter, so maybe something a bit like my old PSK31 Deluxe / DM780 or whatever it was called where you could decode multiple signals at once.

>

> So – I’ll give this some thought over the next couple of months and yes, there would be TX support.

> 

On 05/24/2022 5:26 AM Richard Ebbs <richard.ebbs79@...> wrote:


Been comparing JS8Call with VarAC. VarAC seems to be a lot better and has a developing UI. You can QSY and chat away but at a low speed unless both operators have a Vara license, then it's quite usable.
Unfortunately, you can't use SDR radio for RX as the latency is too big unless someone knows a workaround? TX delay or something like that?
https://www.varac-hamradio.com/

I'm currently running WSPR on 20, 30, and 40m, and my 5 watts into a simple 20m vertical (fiberglass flagpole with 10m of wire wrapped around it) are getting amazing results.
https://www.wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map


What would be good, is WSPR QSO mode!

73 de Richard G0MIE
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