Re: FT8 with GNU radio and the PlutoSDR on the 2 meters band

Hey Adrian, that's nice!

Generally: you said you couldn't implement an ALC: what's an ALC?

Best regards,
Marcus

Mon, 2020-01-13 at 16:40 +0000, Adrian Musceac wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a report about combining WSJTX and GNU radio with a PlutoSDR transceiver to achieve FT8 contacts on the 144 MHz amateur radio band. The short summary is that I achieved contacts at over 800 km and heard stations as far as 1000 km last month in excellent tropo propagation conditions with 20 Watts of output power.
> I thought you might be interested in reading this, but it's too long to paste here.
>
> The report can be read here:
> http://qradiolink.org/ft8-plutosdr-2meters.html
>
> Adrian YO8RZZ