One of my favorite radios was a Small Wonders Labs PSK20. This
was a radio designed to only send and receive on the 20M PSK
subband (14.070-14.074). Coupled with a computer to run PSK
software it made a very effective travel radio, and I made many
QSOs with it.
In the modern age, a KX2 is about the same size, but covers
80M-10M and is basically a HF HT. Many of the JS8Call people are
using modern Raspberry Pis to run the software, and JS8Call uses
the same encode/decode/modulation as FT8. (It allows rag chewing.)
For myself, I could probably change the frequency on my PSK20 to
work on the 20M FT8 band, but it's not a high personal priority.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 2/22/21 at 10:36 PM, elecraft@mailman.qth.net (Doug Millar
via Elecraft) wrote:
I have been wondering for some time- How will FT8 change ham
radio equipment? Right off I imagine a radio and computer in
one box maybe with the display. (FT8 should vastly simplify the
first interface with the radio, with menus reaching deeper into
its control. Most of today's designs are not well enough
integrated and I think are hampered by preconceptions. Nor do
they take advantage of graphic user interfaces that are common
in say cell phones. I think it could be one box with voice
and touch control with keyboard and mouse optional. How about
an internal projector so that the screen can be projected onto
another surface making monitors optional? If it is going to be
worth it, It has to be not different but do things differently.
Has anyone else had any thoughts? Doug K6JEY
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