It’s actually better than that. FT8 only transmits for 12.6 seconds giving a duty cycle of 42%. The 7.4 seconds left over are used for decode so you can have an answer to send in the next transmit slot.
73 Bill AE6JV > On Jun 5, 2022, at 11:18:23, Ken K6MR <[email protected]> wrote: > > Worst case duty cycle on FT8 is never more than 50%. This assumes that you > are transmitting every odd or even time slot. Very few stations are able to > keep that rate for very long. So I would bet the actual duty cycle is more > like 30% to 40% in actual use. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
