Saturday, July 27, 2024

Mediocre Fox

FT-8 F/H is a wonderful thing.   It automates a lot of the handling of QSO for multiple calls.  With 400W limit in Australia I can only manage to handle three streams because the normal F/H dilutes the strength of each stream by a 1/3 per stream.  Counting in the line losses that 400W is maybe around 50W per stream nominally.

Super Fox on the other hand refactors the envelope of the RF so that each stream is delivered with the full power of the amplifier minus the losses.  But to get SuperFox software, one has to go directly and ask for it -- because it involves secure keys and so on with the back-end.

I've searched (perhaps not deep enough?) for a copy of SuperFox WSJT-X.  It isn't found.

I'll settle for a middle way -- Mediocre Fox.  All of the high power (not diluted) but without the extra layer of  anti-DQRM features.

What are the chances of getting M/F soon? Negative zero.  Just something I could really use at the moment.


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