Inbuilt band-hopping in WSJT-X 3.x

WSJT-X 3.x has inbuilt support for band hopping! Results RX results from an experimental version of DDX: This is super useful for monitoring FT8 traffic on multiple bands. References libmirisdr-5 WSJT-X Improved

October 18, 2025 · 1 min · 32 words · Dhiru Kholia

FT8 Decoding Challenges on Android

Here is the FT8 WAV test file. On an AMD64 machine: 1 second using the fast decode settings. We were able to get the MSHV's FT8 engine to work on Android, thanks to the work done by https://github.com/sannysanoff/SDRPlusPlusBrown folks. Around ~4.5 seconds to decode the same file. This is why we can't really have full-blown realtime FT8 decoder(s) on Android just yet! Idea: But we can surely use this full-blown FT8 decoder in our FT8 Decoder app which has no realtime requirements! ...

September 29, 2025 · 3 min · 513 words · Dhiru Kholia