Mastodawn

fiddling around in #JS8 mode tonight #HamRadio 📡

Typical programms for #FT8 and #JS8 both have an ALL.TXT feature. When activated, any text your computer ever decodes and anything ever sent will be written to that file.

Personally, I find that quite useful for certain research, so I activate it. Yes, over the years, this file can get somewhat large, but not too large for modern hard drives IMHO.

Asking the FT8 and/or JS8 users among you: How do you handle this?

@va3db @croyle

I have ALL.TXT activated

58.8%

I have ALL.TXT deactivated

5.9%

Sometimes active, sometimes not

Don't know

35.3%

Poll ended at Mar 31 at 4:37pm.

Bud Talbot Mar 22

Anyone know what the callsign group "HERC" is on #JS8? It seems to be a widely used group on 40m.

#hamradio

K3LOE Mike Mar 6

The waitlist for assembled units from @qrplabs has gotten shorter since I put in an order end of January. Then it was 3 months long, but now it's less than two. Looking forward to trying #JS8 with my #QDX

#DigitalModes #QRP

michaistinie Feb 2

Ok, so #meshtastic works, #reticulum works, #js8 call works... and then just found :
https://github.com/lxmfy/js8call-bot/

GitHub - lxmfy/js8call-bot: LXMFy JS8Call Bot

LXMFy JS8Call Bot. Contribute to lxmfy/js8call-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

michaistinie Jan 26

Finally got all my #meshtastic devices up and running and set up a mesh BBS. Amazing, feels like 1987! Now I just have to somehow combine this with #js8

PE1PUX Dec 19

Playing around with FreeDATA (https://freedata.app/) app on 40 meters. What a nice modern application, can operate keyboard-to-keyboard QSO's and leave messages from a remote PC using a webbrowser. Seems like a nice modern alternative to #JS8CALL. It's based on the open source #Codec2 which is also used for #FreeDV and #M17. No need for proprietary software modems like #VARA anymore. If you like stuff like #VarAC or #JS8 give this a try! #hamradio #ham #freedata

FreeDATA

a free & open-source application for sending data through HF channels...

Bud Talbot Dec 14

On #JS8 20m this morning. I haven't played with JS8 in quite a while so I thought I would see what is going on.

Pretty quiet aside from HBs at the moment.

#hamradio

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Bud Talbot Dec 11

@N3VEM you could do #JS8. It is slow enough that typing with one hand would probably be fine.

Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him Nov 21

I've done #JS8 on and off for more than 4 years (wasn't yet called "JS8" then). Great mode for inner city QRP! I think the crowd is still small, but slowly growing.

I routinely check https://www.pskreporter.info/pskmap.html?preset&callsign=ZZZZZ&what=all&txrx=tx&mode=JS8&timerange=1800&hideunrec=1&blankifnone=1&showlines=1&mapCenter=52.01337806920458,-37.27930184045637,3.2675143267716225 to choose band, mostly 20 and 40.

I enjoy ragchew QSOs often exceeding an hour. Easiest to reach during (but not restricted to) the monthly party https://js8call.groups.io/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=12902&eventid=1597230&calstart=2024-12-14 .

I use the message/mailbox feature for friendly exchange with absent folks.

@oh2cil @bud_t @AF0AJ @va3db @k3fnb