[Elecraft] FT8: "Magic radio"?

[Wes Stewart]

Actually, I was in the process of learning about JT65 by doing some listening 
tests when FT8 was added to the suite.  So I took it up almost immediately after 
it was introduced.  I think I was up to about 80 "contacts" when someone on the 
WSJT-X Yahoo group suggested that JTAlert was a great thing to have.  I wasn't 
quite sure why, but I installed anyway.

The setup in my shack has a laptop on a shelf above a larger monitor on the 
operating desk. Normally, the log is on the laptop and everything else is below 
using Windows split screen.  I was trying to work a west African station and we 
were part way through the QSO when it became clear I was getting QRMed each time 
I (my computer) sent a report.  After several sequences I saw a brief flash of a 
window popping up but straddling both screens so I didn't quite understand what 
it was.  A few seconds later it happened again but this time I got the gist of 
what it was. JTAlert was informing me that my QSO partner was/had been sending 
me a text message informing me that he had my report and I should be sending 
RRR.  At that point I stopped transmitting and unloaded the software.  Nuff said.

Wes   N7WS



  On 7/3/2018 6:36 PM, Neil Zampella wrote:
> .. and if you add JT-Alert to the mix, it can do the QRZ lookup for you ..
>
> Neil, KN3ILZ
>
>
> On 7/3/2018 5:32 PM, Carl Yaffey wrote:
>> On Jul 3, 2018, at 4:42 PM, Grant Youngman <ghyoungman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> and don’t care to find out what the other guy’s name is or what he/she does 
>>> when they aren’t punching at their own keyboard
>> As soon as I start an FT8 “iso”, I go to QRZ and look the person up.
>>
>>
>> Carl Yaffey  K8NU
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