Re: Topband: FT-8 performance

2019-08-01 Thread Marco Cogoni
gt; On CW, you could send your call many times > in 15 seconds for "error correction" and take advantage > of QSB peaks. That tends to level the playing field. > More playing field leveling is using Super Check Partial > analogous to what FT-8 does. > > Rick N6RK > __

Re: Topband: FT-8 performance

2019-08-01 Thread Marco Cogoni
Hi, I agree with Jerry. I spent a few weeks trying to use FT8 to obtain antenna radiation patterns and I discovered how the SNR is computed: it's totally flawed. Basically WSJTX computes the number in two steps: the first one estimates how strong the adjacent frequency bins are with respect