Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 and frequency drift .
Hi Joe, This question was pure technical curiosity, I do not ask any improvement. Bill's answer was very understandable. Some OMs use TCXOs based tranceiver, and some do not. May it be necessary to indicate in the documentation of WSJT-X the level of maximum drift which does not degrade the transmission? Thank you for your answer, Have a good day, David, F4HTQ. -Message d'origine- De : Joe Taylor [mailto:j...@princeton.edu] Envoyé : vendredi 6 avril 2018 16:56 À : WSJT software development <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Objet : Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 and frequency drift . David -- On 4/6/2018 9:08 AM, David Alloza wrote: > I am wondering how we can decode FT8 message send by a frequency > drift transmitter . > Do we know from what level of frequency drift a message become > impossible to decode ? > Do you have any idea how the minimum SNR decoding level is impacted by > a frequency drift? You don't say what has motivated your questions. Bill already provided basic answers corresponding to the "stock" FT8 decoder. There will be little sensitivity loss for frequency drifts up to ~3 Hz over a 12.6 s transmission. Things will degrade significantly if the drift is much larger. With sufficient motivation, it would not be very difficult to add "AFC" capability to a specialized FT8 decoder. WSJT-X already includes such features for JT65 and JT9. -- Joe, K1JT -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 and frequency drift .
David -- On 4/6/2018 9:08 AM, David Alloza wrote: I am wondering how we can decode FT8 message send by a frequency drift transmitter . Do we know from what level of frequency drift a message become impossible to decode ? Do you have any idea how the minimum SNR decoding level is impacted by a frequency drift? You don't say what has motivated your questions. Bill already provided basic answers corresponding to the "stock" FT8 decoder. There will be little sensitivity loss for frequency drifts up to ~3 Hz over a 12.6 s transmission. Things will degrade significantly if the drift is much larger. With sufficient motivation, it would not be very difficult to add "AFC" capability to a specialized FT8 decoder. WSJT-X already includes such features for JT65 and JT9. -- Joe, K1JT -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 and frequency drift .
On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Bill Somervillewrote: > On 06/04/2018 14:08, David Alloza wrote: > >> Dear developers, >> >> I am wondering how we can decode FT8 message send by a frequency drift >> transmitter . >> > If the project is to dig out a drifting undecodable signal perhaps it would be easier to take a recording and process it in some audio software and try the decoder until it hits ? Purely academic in this case, but perhaps helping a fellow ham. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] FT8 and frequency drift .
On 06/04/2018 14:08, David Alloza wrote: Dear developers, I am wondering how we can decode FT8 message send by a frequency drift transmitter . Do we know from what level of frequency drift a message become impossible to decode ? Do you have any idea how the minimum SNR decoding level is impacted by a frequency drift? Regards, David F4HTQ. Hi David, modes used for EME and other VHF and up propagation paths necessarily have to deal with changing frequency. I don't believe FT8 has explicit compensation. Given that, so long as the drift is no more than half the tone spacing over a transmission I doubt there is much impact. So that would be a drift rate of less than 12.5Hz/minute (50Hz ÷ 8 ÷ 2 = 3.125Hz × 4 per minute), above that degradation will be rapid. 73 Bill G4WJS. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
[wsjt-devel] FT8 and frequency drift .
Dear developers, I am wondering how we can decode FT8 message send by a frequency drift transmitter . Do we know from what level of frequency drift a message become impossible to decode ? Do you have any idea how the minimum SNR decoding level is impacted by a frequency drift? Regards, David F4HTQ. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel