Bruce, Well done! Your research and explanation makes perfect sense when one understands exactly how FT8 works. I'll plan to stay above 1500 Hz on FT8 with my VFO set at 5.357 MHz in the

N0AN, The Official Observer Program used to do an adequate job of informing Amateurs of proper Band usage. Where are they these days? As I said before, FT8 uses 8-FSK Modulation with 6.25 Hz

Could be looking for justification for a new computer... "Look honey, I asked the folks on the group and the consensus is that I need that Power House I showed you." John

Looking up the specs on this computer, I was blown away! It seems like alot of power I would not need as it would only be limited to WSJT-X , RTTY & CW. Would it make sense for me to upgrade to this

Thanks Martin, I've used that 'set priority' option, but then you must operate the software in Administrator mode - perhaps not always recommended. I previously published instructions in

Grateful thanks to Bill G4WJS and Joe K1KE for their kind replies regarding reducing e-mails to digest level. All is good now. 73, Frank G4PMB

I might add, 60m is secondary to the amateur radio service in the USA. USA amateurs must relinquish the frequency in the case of US military or government stations becoming active. That could include

From the ARRL: These are channel-center frequencies, not the ones you tune your radio to. The NTIA told the FCC that hams "must assure that their signal is transmitted on the channel-center

Hi I forgot to mention the UDP message id #14 which was also introduced in WSJT-X ver 2.1. That UDP message is SwitchConfig allows a companion program to send a UDP message to WSJT-X and to

I'm seeing a rinse in members being removed for marking messages as spam again. There is nothing in particular the moderators can do to stop this but there is some useful information

You can't really force the TX to track the RX per se, you can set it to the same by right clicking on receive in the waterfall window and there's an option for it, others have mentioned this is not

Also, it clearly states that no more than one station transmit at any given time thus also limiting to a conversational rather than a transactional contact type. (If you hear a conversation, don't

IMHO, this discussion of operating FT8 on 60 meters deserves its own thread. From looking at the waterfall display (Wide Graph), it seems to me that a FT8 Tx frequency of 1500

Again, ARRL have *on multiple occasions* reported communications from FCC Enforcement staff (and NTIA who are responsible for the "60 M band") reminding US licensed amateurs that 97.303(h) requires

Bob, Of course you are seeing them all over the place, and that is exactly what we are being warned about. I used to approach things exactly as you have and was subsequently told that these

Took place in RSGB FT4 contest this week. I had four colours chosen: my call in message, new call, cq in message and transmitted message. I couldn't get the Best S&P button to do anything? On-line

+1 for running a NUC on 12V. Just watch your power cable size - the peak current goes from like 3A at 19V to 5A at 12V. The coax power cable from the stock PSU won't cut it. As for choosing a PC,

Sometimes a PC is sold with a small hard drive. Or with an older hard drive that is slow. The cheaper HP laptops are generally sold that way. My experience. That alone can cause you problems when

This is from, 47 CFR Part 97 - September 23 2014-2 (h) 60 m band: (1) In the 5330.5-5406.4 kHz band (60 m band), amateur stations may transmit only on the five center frequencies specified in

I'll second what Jim wrote here. I'm using a Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen1 for my work laptop (15.6in screen). Its a serious little box: Dual PCI M.2 NVME slots, Thunderbolt port, USB 3.x, Nvidia Graphics,