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Taking a Radio Camping

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139 points ewpratten | 1 comments | 27 Jul 24 02:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bigjimmyk3 ◴[27 Jul 24 23:01 UTC] No.41089970[source]▶
I did something similar last month; I took my FT-817 with me to scout camp. I wanted to work some FT8 but didn't bring the required doodads with me to hook the radio's audio interface to my Surface Pro X. No problem, I'll just use the mic and speaker on the laptop. To my surprise (and much to the annoyance of my fellow leaders) it worked! wsjt-x is an amazing piece of software.
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1. ewpratten ◴[27 Jul 24 23:28 UTC] No.41090108[source]▶
haha, ya. I was showing my dad what FT8 sounded like with the soundcard unplugged, and I very quickly decided that I didn't want to hear that anymore.