[NLRS] FT8 frequency on 222, 432, 1296?

[Chris Elmquist]

On Tuesday (07/28/2026 at 02:08PM +0000), Greg Putrich via NLRS wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday (07/28/2026 at 01:49PM +0000), Greg Putrich via NLRS wrote:
> >> I've been using 222.174 and have made several DX contacts there over the past few weeks. I haven't tried 222.065.
> >> 
> >> I saw AC0RA yesterday morning calling CQ on 222.174.
> > 
> > Hunh. OK.  I never got the memo that we were doing it different than what
> > the software suggests.  I will add these frequencies into the options.
> 
> On mine, I didn't have 222 in there, so I poked around the Internet and found people using 222.174 and put it in there. Then worked a few so have stayed there. 
> I checked my config today and added 222.065 for FT8, but I also had it in there for Q65. 
> 
> So what is the "real" one? Beats me... sounds like both? I'll be monitoring 222.065 and see what I hear. 

Right.  Unless you have a really wide spectragram, being on one won't show you
everybody's on the other :-(

> There's also some level of uncertainty on 70cm with 432.174 seems to be in use, but I don't generally work up there currently. 

I've put in .174 for 222, 432 and 1296 now and marked them as "preferred" so
I will prefer to pick them in the future!

> > Here, the software tunes the radio rather than just spinning the dial
> > to get there so I need it in the pull-down as one of the channel options.
> 
> Same here. I also have a transverter, so I needed to add an offset as well for that band.

Using an FT736 here with the CAT control and phase locked reference oscillator
so I am pretty well on frequency as long as I know what that frequency
should be.

> > This could give me a whole new outlook on how dead or not these bands are!
> 
> On 222.174, I've made contacts to EN13, EN21, EN41, EN70, and way out to FM19. No EN34 nor 35. 

Nice. OK.  Well, I would have missed that sort of thing being on the wrong
frequency.  I'm in EN35 so you would have got me too!  You know, had I
known... LOL.    I'll be on 222.174 going forward if you want to try again.

Chris NØJCF
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Chris Elmquist