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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the blurb I submitted for my preso next month to the https://rochesterham.org/ mtg on the JS8 protocol and using the JS8Call software package:
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Jeff Sonstein (WA2RRB) is a retired RIT Prof and longtime hacker of code who, once upon a time, was an Army Sgt and radio operations chief. Jeff is particularly interested in approaches to communicating over long distances through noisy conditions using low power; in having “conversations, not just checkins”.
At the January 2024 RARA meeting Jeff will be presenting materials about the JS8 protocol and the JS8Call software package (first released JAN 2019), with a practical focus on configuration and conversational-operations issues:
“JS8Call (JS8) is an amateur radio QSO communication mode based on FT8. It is popular among amateur radio operators for its ability to send and receive messages despite challenging propagation conditions, high noise environments, low power operations (QRP), or even compromised antennas.
JS8Call turns FT8 into a "chat" mode, allowing stations to send longer messages "keyboard-to-keyboard." JS8Call can be thought of like a very weak-signal radio broadcast form of 'e-mail' (though it is not e-mail), where operators can check their message inbox and reply later. Messages can also be sent out to be relayed through other operators to reach a recipient operator. JS8Call conversations can also be had in real-time.”
[ from > https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/JS8 ]
Issues such as rig-control and remote operations software choices will be touched upon, but the real focus will be on understanding, configuring, and using this protocol and software for conversational radio communications, ad hoc network formation, and message-passing possibilities.