Launch of Amateur Radio Network

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John Rivers G0GCQ and Andy Whybrow M0IRU have come together to create the Amateur Radio Network.

This is a new collaboration to create a network to share ideas, engage and discuss all and any amateur radio topics on various social media platforms. Speakers have already been arranged via zoom, including

  • 11th Feb - Tim Duffy (K3LR) CEO of DX Engineering

  • 25th Feb - An evening with Rich Donahue (K0PIR)

  • 11th March - Andy Carpenter of SDRPlay

  • 25th March - An Evening with Jason (KC5HWB)

For the oncoming months, we have Ceecom Antennas, Begali and Yaesu USA in the pipeline.

Amateur Radio Network - http://www.arn.world

Amateur Radio Network (Facebook) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/517224945921950/

New WSJT mode Q65

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New WSJT mode Q65

WSJT-X 2.4.0 will introduce Q65, a digital protocol designed for minimal two-way QSOs over especially difficult propagation paths

On paths with Doppler spread more than a few Hz, the weak-signal performance of Q65 is the best among all WSJT-X modes. Q65 is particularly effective for tropospheric scatter, ionospheric scatter, and EME on VHF and higher bands, as well as other types of fast-fading signals.

Q65 uses 65-tone frequency-shift keying and builds on the demonstrated weak-signal strengths of QRA64, a mode introduced to WSJT-X in 2016. Q65 differs from QRA64 in the following important ways:

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Digital Modes on any Android Device

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droidstar for android is software which connects to D-STAR, DMR, Fusion, NXDN, P25, and M17 reflectors and gateways/repeaters over UDP. It uses open source vocoder software for all modes, and requires no AMBE hardware or silly remote AMBE servers. Dstar encoding is currently not acceptable for QSOs, so TX has been disabled.

DROID-Star (Early Access) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dudetronics.droidstar&hl=en_GB&gl=US