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I CHECKED FT8 RESULTS USING PSKREPORTER WHILE RUNNING 5 W TO MY DIPOLE
ANTENNA ON 20 METERS AND SAW RECEPTION REPORTS FROM ACROSS THE US.  I WAS
ALSO ABLE TO SNAG A FEW FT8 CONTACTS ON 6 METERS WITH JUST 5 W TO THE SAME
ANTENNA.  IF YOUR HF DIGITAL INTERESTS INCLUDE RTTY, YOULL BE INTERESTED TO
KNOW THAT THE IC 705 HAS THE ABILITY TO SEND AND RECEIVE RTTY WITHOUT THE
NEED FOR AN EXTERNAL COMPUTER, AND IT DOES THIS QUITE WELL WITH ITS
EXTREMELY SHARP MARK/SPACE TWIN PEAKS FILTERING.  I USED IT TO COPY W1AW
RTTY BULLETIN TRANSMISSIONS, ALONG WITH THE OCCASIONAL RANDOM RTTY SIGNAL.
I RAN THE POPULAR MMTTY RTTY SOFTWARE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON MY STATION COMPUTER
AND NOTICED THAT THE IC 705S RTTY DECODER MATCHED IT CHARACTER FOR
CHARACTER.  TO SEND RTTY WITHOUT AN EXTERNAL COMPUTER, YOULL NEED TO
PREPROGRAM THE RTTY MACRO MEMORIES.  BECAUSE MOST RTTY ACTIVITY THESE DAYS
IS CONFINED TO CONTESTS AND DX OPERATING WHERE EXCHANGES ARE PREFORMATTED
ANYWAY, THIS ISNT A SERIOUS LIMITATION.  ALTHOUGH SLOW SCAN TV SSTV ISNT
THE BEST MODE FOR LOW POWER WORK, I HAD TO GIVE IT A TRY.  I LOADED UP THE
MMSSTV SOFTWARE, CONFIGURED IT TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE 705, AND THEN SENT
AN SSTV CQ.  MY 5 W 20 METER SIGNAL WAS RATHER NOISY AT KD9DD IN ILLINOIS,
BUT MY CQ IMAGE WAS VIEWABLE SEE FIGURE 4.  THE WIRELESS CONNECTION THIS IS
THE ERA OF WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICES, AND THE IC 705 IS NO EXCEPTION.  IT
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