Wednesday, January 4, 2023

WSJT running within the radio (Xiegu X6100)

No PC needed - the shape of things to come?


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12 comments:

  1. John - Now that is slick!
    73
    Tim K5TH

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    1. It is - I think we will see this designed into radios soon.

      73,
      John

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  2. Hi interesting but I prefer working digimodes via laptop. Its more convinient for me 73

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    1. I think this would appeal to POTA and other outdoor ops who'd like a minimalist package for digi modes. They seem to make up a large percentage of POTA stations on the air at any given time.

      73,
      John AE5X

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  3. Yes, I expect more radios will come with build in WSJT support. At least....my IC-7300 does RTTY all from the radio so why not FT8...Probabely the screen is a bit small, but there is a solution for everything. 73, Bas

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    1. One thing is sure - the hobby doesn't sit still and the radios are always changing - usually for the better. I guess that's two things ;-)

      73,
      John AE5X

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  4. In theory the sBitx does this, as well. Starting to see more and more radios moving in this direction.

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    1. Do you have an sBITX, Dave? I just started following the group.io again to see what people are doing with theirs.

      73,
      John

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    2. Not yet. Waiting for things to calm down, so I'm not dealing with a half-baked project. I started with a uBitx v3.0/4.0 and finally got a v6.0 before it matured to the point of being useful on the air, without having to fix things like spurious outputs, etc.

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    3. I understand (believe me!). There will soon (late Jan/early Feb) be a dual-band (20/40m) SSB transceiver kit for sale at an economical price from that part of the world. Buy now or wait? That is the question...

      73,
      John

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  5. Not really surprising. After all SDRs are actually radios running on computers. So, why not run computer software other than the SDR on the same set of chips?

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    1. Exactly - when you look at it that way, it's kinda surprising that it's taken this long for someone to do it.

      73,
      John

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