International Marconi Day 2026 - FAQ: digital modes
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To activators and hunters:
Q: Alex, good afternoon, xxxATxxx will operate in FT8 during the IMD2026. He's using xxxATxxx as callsign, but he said he ran a test with his digital modes software and it's not accepting his callsign. Could you please check how to proceed?
A: Thanks for asking.
Note please that unfortunately FTx creates issues even on HF and sometimes even on big dxpeditions too: many callsign aren't accepted; many QSO aren't finalized and so on.
So, we can try to solve it as follows:
Ask for support to our digital modes managers and/or to your favorite digital modes software author (...usually the software developers who adapt their software to contest and event's rules).
Try different software (if any; check around!).
Or simply ignore FTx and go directly to JS8, RTTY, PSK or any other digital modes!
It's nobody's fault: FTx is very difficult to develope and it's just a matter of bits, nothing more! Good Luck!
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