19 Jan 2021

New digital mode coming?

Southgate News reports that a new digital mode may be coming later this year called Q65 as part of WSJT-X suite.  I have just downloaded the latest release candidate for WSJT-X (2.3.0-rc3), but I have not checked if it is there. 

See https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Q65_Quick_Start.pdf

See http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2021/january/new-digital-protocol-q65.htm#.YAbrz_GTLrc

3 comments:

  1. Just what the world needs, yet another digital mode taking up more band space. Do people talk anymore?

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  2. You will find all these modes are MUCH better on bandwidth than ANY speech mode and work with very weak signals.

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  3. Yes, people DO still talk but people also embrace digital modes like FT8 which is just 50Hz wide whereas SSB is 2100Hz or more and FM far wider.

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