Tuesday 28 May 2019
Nice Es 2m FT-8 signals today
With a distance of 3134 km, the 144 MHz signals of EA8DBM reached my FT-480R transceiver today:
Monday 27 May 2019
First FT-8 2m RX on 144.175 MHz
In order to be able to use FT-8 (and digimodes in general) on 2m, one must be able to select the USB mode. On eBay I found a nice FT-480R, capable of operating in USB.
The Yaesu FT-480R is a mobile transceiver designed around 1980. Yesterday I made the first FM QSO with this device. PI4VHW (Location Fortress Numansdorp) respondend to my FM call on 145.550 MHz.
Today I connected the rig to my PC in order to decode the first FT-8 signals (144.175 MHz):
The Yaesu FT-480R is a mobile transceiver designed around 1980. Yesterday I made the first FM QSO with this device. PI4VHW (Location Fortress Numansdorp) respondend to my FM call on 145.550 MHz.
Today I connected the rig to my PC in order to decode the first FT-8 signals (144.175 MHz):
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