We're dancing with Europe again on #6m #FT8.

Keep an ear out for Europe on #6m #FT8. I haven't been on long enough to know if it's building or waning, but did just work a few stations in Germany.

I configured WSJT-X for my FT-710 and had a great time making a few contacts and then looking at PSKReporter to see where I was heard. Fascinating stuff... #hamradio #ft8

Awesome!! Colorado also made it into the log on #2m #FT8 (W9RM, 1723mi, 2756km).

Included some #FT8 action into today's Early Bird #POTA #parksontheair activation. Plus rode my bike with a bell to signal giraffes and they walked to the fence to greet me. #AmateurRadio #Hamradio #WSJTx

HF radio is magic

My haul over the last 12 hours (early evening to morning)

I have an #FT8 station band-hopping over all the HF bands, 24x7. Yesterday, almost 200 stations decoded on #6m - the #SporadicE was hot. Today, fewer than 10 on 6m, and 30m on up are all very low; 20m is highest with only 64 in the past hour (very low). Lemme guess, #FieldDay weekend, right?

Anybody on 20 #FT8 want to help out with a #POTA activation? Look for N9DRB/VE2

the clouds are alive
with the waves of RF

A modest annoyance with my current #Debian and #KDEPlasma6 setup: the #AmateurRadio apps change to the default audio source when the computer wakes up, rather than the otherwise unused motherboard audio I have configured.

So if #gqrx and #wsjtx are running when the PC goes to sleep, it will resume upon waking--but via my main audio interface. I have to manually change it and change it back for it to work properly again.

(I don't actually want #ft8 tones through my studio monitors.)

New #FT8 distance record from this location, on 30m. Victoria, Australia is 9615 miles away.

This is with an AirSpy DiscoveryHF+ receiver and a YouLoop passive magnetic loop antenna mounted on my apartment wall.

Getting nothing at all in 10m, 17m, 20m, 30m, or 40m.

And just a handful, all in one direction, on 15m. Very strange propagation today.

Whoa! Just worked TX (1338 mi/ 2140km) on #2m #FT8 in the ARRL June VHF contest. Several other stations in TX heard me as well.

Wow! While typing this I worked a station in OK on 2m FT8!

*taptaptap* Is this thing even on?

That's a stupidly low noise floor on 17m this morning. #FT8 coming through just fine from up and down the east coast (about 650-900 miles away) (so far)

"I had stopped listening to the radio, but this is new. It is something different"

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New #HamRadio sticker in the shop! #FT8 #DigitalModes