Thanks for this great video. Most I've come across explained the setup but did not actually show the program in use. Gregg did a great job despite his newness to the software.
Saved to my radio playlist to watch later. Want to learn more about operating JS8CALL, as opposed to just setting it up. I made a SOTA contact with it but want to get smoother at using it.
Great video. As Gregg stated, I found almost no one on the JS8 freqs. Have yet to make a full QSO on JS8. Hopefully your efforts will pay off with more folks on JS8. My main complaint with FT8/FT4 is that it is so impersonal as to be questionable as a true QSO. Thanks!
I played with JS8 a couple hours yesterday afternoon (Sunday). Checked heartbeat a few times and got half a dozen returns showing good signal, but never saw a CQ and no one answered my CQ calls. This is with the latest software update. Keep hoping more will jump on JS8.
Nice video. JS8Call is pretty cool, but man it is soooo slooooow.. it takes over a minute to send a sentence? I used to use FSQCall which is much faster, can send and receive images, and has "sounding" which is similar to the heartbeat feature.. I've been monitoring 40m FSQ freq (7104mHz) but no sigs there anymore. Pretty sure people suffer through the slowness of JS8Call just so they can be part of the whole FT8 crowd.
I thought the same thing... I have an electrical engineering background and have given many seminars, briefings etc. on complex subjects and I would never stand before people ill prepared like this. I suppose I'm old school but the internet has produce subject matter experts overnight.
I’ve found that the JS8CALL data throughput speed is very slow, even at the faster data rates. FT8 gets boring quickly, because it’s semi-automated. hello/goodbye QSOs. Decades ago, I used AMTOR, which is extremely robust. AMTOR has error checking, and could get through when no other modes could get through. PSK31 is a poor substitute for AMTOR, since it’s nowhere bad robust and doesn’t have error correction. Unfortunately, g try he popularity of AMTOR died decades ago. Dave KY0L
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Thank you for sharing this video from your club. I will be installing this software.
Thanks for this great video. Most I've come across explained the setup but did not actually show the program in use. Gregg did a great job despite his newness to the software.
Saved to my radio playlist to watch later. Want to learn more about operating JS8CALL, as opposed to just setting it up. I made a SOTA contact with it but want to get smoother at using it.
What's a "Grid Locator"? He's needed to learn more about JS8CALL *BEFORE* this presentation !! He didn't know *SNR!?*
Great video. As Gregg stated, I found almost no one on the JS8 freqs. Have yet to make a full QSO on JS8. Hopefully your efforts will pay off with more folks on JS8. My main complaint with FT8/FT4 is that it is so impersonal as to be questionable as a true QSO. Thanks!
did you hear about the improvements made to js8call (specifficly the the API) ? opened up a ton of possibilities
I played with JS8 a couple hours yesterday afternoon (Sunday). Checked heartbeat a few times and got half a dozen returns showing good signal, but never saw a CQ and no one answered my CQ calls. This is with the latest software update. Keep hoping more will jump on JS8.
I am very interested in this. I will get my 20m and 40m up maybe in Nov. I’m in Pittsburgh.
Very helpful info, thank you.👍
Where can i download JS8 software..TNX
I have been working ft8 recently just getting my feet wet with JS8call
Nice video. JS8Call is pretty cool, but man it is soooo slooooow.. it takes over a minute to send a sentence? I used to use FSQCall which is much faster, can send and receive images, and has "sounding" which is similar to the heartbeat feature.. I've been monitoring 40m FSQ freq (7104mHz) but no sigs there anymore. Pretty sure people suffer through the slowness of JS8Call just so they can be part of the whole FT8 crowd.
FT8 isn't that robust (watch the forums.) JS8, unlike FT8, doesn't crash.
This guy is not nearly well enough informed to be instructing this topic.
I thought the same thing... I have an electrical engineering background and have given many seminars, briefings etc. on complex subjects and I would never stand before people ill prepared like this. I suppose I'm old school but the internet has produce subject matter experts overnight.
I’ve found that the JS8CALL data throughput speed is very slow, even at the faster data rates. FT8 gets boring quickly, because it’s semi-automated. hello/goodbye QSOs.
Decades ago, I used AMTOR, which is extremely robust. AMTOR has error checking, and could get through when no other modes could get through. PSK31 is a poor substitute for AMTOR, since it’s nowhere bad robust and doesn’t have error correction. Unfortunately, g try he popularity of AMTOR died decades ago. Dave KY0L