Tag: digital

  • FreeDV: Open-Source Digital Voice for HF

    Every digital voice mode covered elsewhere on this site, D-STAR, DMR, System Fusion, lives on VHF and UHF. FreeDV fills a different gap entirely: open-source digital voice on HF, where none of those other modes operate at all. Open source, top to bottom Unlike D-STAR’s proprietary AMBE codec or DMR’s commercial ETSI roots, FreeDV is…

  • 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.

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