Terrestrial LoRa Chat and FT8 Transmissions with Dreamcatcher 2301

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If you are a licensed amateur radio operator, firmware is now available which enables two Dreamcatchers to exchange text messages. The new firmware also enables FT8 transmissions, but these can only be received by a dedicated FT8 receiver; an RTL-SDR with the right software, for example.

To be clear, this is for terrestrial transmissions–and is only available to hams.

It’s pretty neat. The firmware is available here:

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This is interesting. I am not terribly interested in FT8 (I am heavy into JS8) . I do like playing with Lora though…I need to find time to mess with this, thanks for sharing!

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In theory, we can eventually support JS8. If there is interest in what we just released then we will look at JS8 on the Dreamcatcher.

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