Category Archives: FT8

Stem4Girls at Umass Dartmouth was awesome!

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The Newport County Radio club really stepped up big time.  Mike Cullen  supplied an FT-8 radio workshop that worked to several countries,  Our VP, Jim Sammons, filled in on a catapult workshop for a sick person and I had 2 folks from the club (Mary Nebilo and Dick Bianco) helping in the TinkerCAD/circuits Engineering workshop along with two EE graduate student ladies. Both Melissa and Onelis are in my Antenna Theory class so I have them to ask about homework and maybe a club question.  The Wrobles and Beth Cullen worked as chaperones.   Wonderful weather too.  Around 250 girls from grades 3 to 8 attended.

What an inspiration to the girls!

More details will be published here: STEM4Girls – The Kaput Center

73, Paul, K1YBE

Mike K1NPT Speaking to the Stem4Girls audience

Participants erecting antenna used for HF FT-8

FT8 Users MUST Upgrade to WSJT-X Version 2.0.0 Quickly

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Observant users of WSJT-X versions 1.9.1 and older may have observed decreased decodes in the past couple of days.  This is because the International Standard for FT8 was changed on December 10th.  The new standard is NO LONGER COMPATIBLE with the old program versions.

Go to the WSJT-X website and upgrade to 2.0.0 quickly.  You must stop using the older versions by the end of this year.

Once that change is made, your decode rate will shoot up as the majority of the users are using the latest version 2.0.0.