Tag: transmitting
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FT8 – Transmitting
Background Following on from a post earlier this year, where I discussed reception of FT8 signals, I finally got around to transmitting on this mode in the last few days. As a quick reminder, FT8 is a digital mode for sending messages by radio and is particularly good at getting “through the noise”. For those not familiar,…
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FT8 – Quick Intro
Introduction A few people have asked me about the amateur radio thing, “why” being the most frequent. I will touch on this in more detail as time goes on but in short, when I was a kid, I’d wonder, when looking at a normal FM radio, why does it start at 88? Why does it…