[Elecraft] FT8 - was "On Second Thought, I'll Take The Stairs"

[Wayne Burdick]

> On Jul 12, 2020, at 6:57 PM, David Gilbert <ab7echo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Think of it this way ... CW works fine as both a contest mode, DXing mode, and conversational mode.  Underlaying CW with a well configured digital signal processing scheme like that which is under FT8, except with a different user interface than either WSJT-X or JS8,  could be equally versatile but with maybe 6-8 db better S/N ... possibly by an even greater margin if the decoding allowed errors instead of being all or nothing.


Except that (a) you don't have to know CW, and (b) you don't need a key. There goes 73% of its charm :)

Wayne
N6KR