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20250109 - Multiband FT8 QRP low power

Try something new...

Today I hooked up the uSDX+ and ATU100 Tuner to the 20M inverted V antenna to experiment with FT8 and Winlink.

Made a couple of Winlink connections last night and this morning, farthest hop was around 800mi for Winlink.

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winlink2

For FT8, I had a South Africa station respond to my CQ, but we could never finish the full signal report transaction both ways. They did get my CQ and I got their first signal report back, so almost a full contact. It would probably be the longest transaction to date for me at under 3w power out.

As far as FT8 QSOs, here is the map from today for 20M/17M/15M/10M. One station I connected to twice on two different bands, so it shows up as 2 QSOs in the log, but only one map point:

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20250109-ft8
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