Category: Digital

  • K3 and digital modes

    Using WSJT-X as my example digital program, here are the steps to getting digital modes to work with the K3 using an external sound card, the ASUS U7. The process is almost identical to the one I use with the KX3, an external soundcard dongle and a MacBook Pro. First, it is simple and easy…

  • The book I’d like written/to write about FT8, WSPR & other digital modes

    I’ve spent the last couple of weeks spending some continuous and focused time finally getting some consistent results out of my radios using digital modes, especially WSPR and JT8 using WSJT-X. Like everything else I do with ham radio, they reveal the woeful inadequacy of my antennas here. In fact, one of the benefits of…

  • Windows soundcard software

    Via the new SDR list heard about RV3APM’s page listing a very wide range of ‘Windows software via Soundcard’. It’s a comprehensive, detailed and at the moment very up-to-date listing. Also includes handy information about frequencies for different modes, discussion groups and other background info about soundcard modes. I wonder if there’s a comparable listing of Mac…

  • Joe Taylor K1JT presentation on WSJT-X

    Joe Taylor, K1JT gave a 75 minute long presentation on WSJT-X at the recent MicroHams Digital Conference in Redmond Washington in mid March. This link takes you to the section within the full day’s 8 hours and 21 minutes long recording. This link takes you to a version edited by Budd, WB7FHC of the same talk. During the presentation,…