Hi Dave,
What do you mean the signal processing is being held hostage?
Joe WB9SBD / W9ET
On 2/18/2022 11:17 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
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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