Version 2 of the DX_FT8 Firmware is the result of 10 months of user collaboration which offers a great FT8 Experience.
The DX_FT8 Transciver Project was introduced in September 2024 by Barb WB2CBA and Charley W5BAA and is based on the STM32F746 Disco Board
From the start, this project was Open Source for both the hardware and software. By making it Open Source the operation of the transceiver and its usefullness have been greatly improved.
To date, the firmware has undergone 13 Revisions. The present the firmware is by far and away a great improvement over our initial offering; thus we are establishing a Version 2.0 of the firmware.
- Paul, g8kig, who patiently hosted the firmware on GitHub and made a number of very important improvements which allowed further development of the firmware.
- Zhenxing, N6HAN, who rewrote the FT8 Traffic Management code to provide a comprehensive FT8 State Machine.
- Barb's DX_FT8 Project: https://github.com/WB2CBA/DX-FT8-FT8-MULTIBAND-TABLET-TRANSCEIVER
- Paul's GitHub Repository with earlier source code: https://github.com/g8kig/DX-FT8-MULTIBAND-TABLET-TRANSCEIVER-Source
- BluQRP: https://groups.io/g/BluQRP
- uSDX Users Group: https://groups.io/g/ucx
New in this version the device time can be synchonised to the Internet and reception reports uploaded to the PskReporter at https://www.pskreporter.info/
Please see https://github.com/g8kig/DX-FT8-TimeSync_PSKReporter for more information about constructing and programming the simple module that plugs into the transceiver.
To submit more accurate reports to PSK reporter, a six-character locator can be used. All you have to do is modify the locator in StationData.ini as follows:
[Station]
Call=W5BAA
Locator=EM00vn
Note: this is only used for PSK Reporter.