Sunday, September 21, 2025

First freeDV contact

 After reading the blog from VK3TPM Mark and watching his videos about freeDV I decided to give it a try for the sake of experimenting. I took some tinkering to get it all working, especially the CAT control. Till I finally realised that CAT control is only working as soon as you hit "start"in the software. Anyway, freeDV is a nice digital addition. Kind of DAB radio for HAMs. It is funny to hear someone speak on HF without any noise. Screaming in the mike, like we use to do on SSB, is not helping. Just speak like you do when someone is sitting beside you in a quiet environment. Watch part of my first contact with freeDV on 40m with DK8EQ Uli. 



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice job Bas, and very interesting result! 73 de KE9V