Category: Digital Modes (Inc: FT8, DMR, YSF, DStar, Etc)
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What Is JTAlert?
JTAlert is a popular companion for WSJT-X that adds alerts, award tracking, and automatic logging to your FT8 operating. Here is what it does.
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Why a Single-Band Radio Isn’t Enough for SHTF, and Where Digital and Encryption Actually Fit
One band and one mode is a fragile foundation for emergency communication. Here’s the case for multi-band, digital-capable gear, an honest look at where encryption is and isn’t legal, and what a MARS mod really does.
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What Is WSJT-X?
WSJT-X is the free software behind FT8 and other weak-signal digital modes. Here is what it does and why it changed ham radio.
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AREDN Mesh Networking: Building a Ham Radio Internet
AREDN turns cheap off-the-shelf routers into a high-speed data network that runs entirely over ham radio frequencies, no internet required. Here is how the pieces fit together.
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Setting Up WSJT-X, GridTracker, HRD, and TQSL: A Digital Station That Logs Itself
How to install WSJT-X, Ham Radio Deluxe, GridTracker, and TQSL, and get them syncing so every FT8 contact logs itself and uploads to LoTW, QRZ, and PSK Reporter automatically.
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Getting on FT8 with the Yaesu FTX-1 Optima (and the Field Head Alone)
Whether it’s docked to the SPA-1 amp or running solo on battery power, here’s how to get the FTX-1 talking to WSJT-X and onto FT8.