Month: November 2019

Using Shift, Width and Narrow filter on a radio

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Signal filtering on Yaesu FT-891

DEMO WITH VIDEO

When using js8call or more crowded ft8 frequencies, there are signals coming from all directions, some stronger and some weaker. And it looks like this.

Brighter yellow signals are stronger ones, but there are some fading signals in the middle, probably also decodable without a need to isolate them to ‘hear’ them better, but signals on a far right side we most probably need to isolate.

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Install JS8Call 2.0.0-RC3 on Ubuntu 19.10

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JS8Call 2.0.0-RC3 on Ubuntu 19.10 from source

You can download binary version for Ubuntu 18.04, but for 19.10 you need to compile it yourself. Before compiling, there are some prerequisites you need to install from official Ubuntu repositories.

Hamlib is also required, so we will compile it also from the source.

JS8Call 2.0.0-RC3 one of the best features is that it can decode Normal, Fast and Turbo simultaneously.

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