FT8 Digital Radio Protocol—How Does it Work?

Dmitrii Eliuseev
Dev Genius
Published in
6 min readJul 12, 2020

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Probably everyone who is interested in ham radio and telecommunications heard about the FT8 communication protocol. This digital mode appeared in 2017, and since then its popularity has only been growing:

Image source: www.qsl.net/w1dyj/FT8%20for%20web.pdf

Lots of radio amateurs are using digital modes, by only connecting their transceiver to the PC, but most of them have little or no understanding of how it works “under the hood”. Let’s…

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