{"id":75,"date":"2023-10-15T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/?p=75"},"modified":"2024-08-31T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T15:55:51","slug":"digital-is-great-but-setting-it-up-is-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Digital is GREAT (but setting it up is TERRIBLE)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20231014_235020.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve made 225 contacts from over 15 countries &#8211; mostly using digital modes like FT-8.  When you connect your radio to your computer, you can use what we call &#8220;weak signal&#8221; and reach in many cases, much further than you can with voice.  Unfortunately there&#8217;s no single &#8220;plug and play&#8221; solution for most of us.  There are very specific hardware and software needs and not a small amount of computing and radio knowledge needed to be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Btw, even when you&#8217;ve BEEN successful, things change &#8211; is what just happened to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still&#8230; I&#8217;m trying &#8211; and occasionally making food QSOs (contacts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made 225 contacts from over 15 countries &#8211; mostly using digital modes like FT-8. When you connect your radio to your computer, you can use what we call &#8220;weak signal&#8221; and reach in many cases, much further than you can with voice. Unfortunately there&#8217;s no single &#8220;plug and play&#8221; solution for most of us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-informational","category-personal","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kc3whj.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}