{"id":37008,"date":"2019-04-25T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37008"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:39:49","slug":"ham-radio-digital-modes-joe-taylor-talks-ft8-and-introduces-ft4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/ham-radio-digital-modes-joe-taylor-talks-ft8-and-introduces-ft4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio Digital Modes: Joe Taylor talks FT8 and introduces FT4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0A0F8229-FE79-4A69-8607-B1352E2254DB-e1556202012759.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37009\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0A0F8229-FE79-4A69-8607-B1352E2254DB-1024x571.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <i>SWLing Post <\/i>contributor, Pete Eaton, who shares the following note and video:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is a You Tube Video of a presentation given by Joe Taylor last night at the Fair Lawn ARC Club Meeting on FT8 &amp; Beyond an introduction to FT4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Pd7zB40xdY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Pd7zB40xdY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the tip, Pete! \u00a0FT4 looks like a fascinating iteration of the popular FT8 mode.<\/p>\n<p><i>Post Readers<\/i>: Any fans of FT8 out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Eaton, who shares the following note and video: Here is a You Tube Video of a presentation given by Joe Taylor last night at the Fair Lawn ARC Club Meeting on FT8 &amp; Beyond an introduction to FT4. Click here to view on YouTube. Thank you for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1114,545,3],"tags":[4114,7735,6901,4102,6941,6680],"class_list":["post-37008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-digital-modes","tag-ft4","tag-ft8","tag-ham-radio","tag-joe-taylor-k1jt","tag-pete-eaton-wb9flw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9CU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49157,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/can-you-id-this-ham-radio-digital-signal-for-rob\/","url_meta":{"origin":37008,"position":0},"title":"Can you ID this ham radio digital signal for Rob?","author":"Thomas","date":"June 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rob, who writes: I have a question about the digital signals I received today during what must have been an E skip opening to the southwest. 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