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Graham McIntire 2026-04-27 13:11:25 -05:00
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@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ date = 2026-04-27
<div class="scene-host" data-scene-host>
FT8 sounds like a chorus of out-of-tune piccolos having a brief panic attack. Twelve and a bit seconds of warbling, repeating every fifteen, somehow containing an entire contact between two stations on opposite sides of the planet. Dial-up modems at least had the decency to be loud about what they were doing. FT8 is too quiet, too brief, and too dense for any of it to be obvious. The information is in there. Your ears just aren't the right tool.
FT8 sounds like a chorus of out-of-tune piccolos having a brief panic attack. Twelve and a bit seconds of warbling, repeating every fifteen, somehow containing an entire contact between two stations on opposite sides of the planet. Dial-up modems at least had the decency to be loud about what they were doing.
So here's what those tones are doing, second by second, from the moment someone clicks "Enable TX" to the moment a near-identical string lights up on a screen 8000 km away.
Here's what those tones are doing, second by second, from the moment someone clicks "Enable TX" to the moment a near-identical string lights up on a screen 8000 km away.
<div id="scene-ft8-spectrum"></div>