Feel free to contact me with any requests for video coverage of a topic for which you'd like more information. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, the NW7US Worldwide Radio Communications YouTube Channel. Thus, this video is a demonstration of my use of HRD's Logbook module, during a recent FT8 QSO. Ham Radio Deluxe logs (with the HRD Logbook module) the digital modes of FT8, JT65A, and JT9 digital communicatons implemented by WSJT-X, via the JT-Alert software. The software that I used, as listed in the video, consists of three software suites interconnected: The sound card is interfaced to the radio (in my case, using an optical coupling circuit). The computer and software encodes and decodes by way of a sound card. In this video demonstration, the mode in use is known as the FT8 digital mode). The computer, with the aid of the modem software (in this case, WSJT-X) has the job of encoding and decoding the information using the protocol of the mode. This demonstration video illustrates one marriage between a modern HF transceiver (in this demonstration, the rig is an Icom IC-7000) that is controlled by a computer running control software, in this case, Ham Radio Deluxe). Even now-and especially now-amateur radio is at the cutting edge of engineering and experimentation.ĭemonstration by NW7US of Ham Radio Deluxe logging an FT8 QSO It is active with a wealth of newer technologies and modes, especially digital modes. The world of amateur radio on the shortwave spectrum (from 3 MHz to 30 MHz-the 'high-frequencies', or, 'HF') is still alive.

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