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# FT8 library
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A C++ implementation of FT8 protocol, mostly intended for experimentation with microcontrollers. At the moment only encoding is implemented.
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The encoding process is relatively light on resources, and an Arduino should be perfectly capable of running this code.
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The intent of this library is to foster experimentation with e.g. automated beacons. FT8 already supports free-text messages and the upcoming new version will support raw telemetry data (71 bits).
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Work is in progress (possibly taking forever) to explore decoding options. On a fast 32-bit microcontroller decoding might be possible, perhaps with some tradeoffs.
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# References and credits
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Thanks to Robert Morris, AB1HL, whose Python code (https://github.com/rtmrtmrtmrtm/weakmon) inspired this and helped to test various parts of the code.
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This would not of course be possible without the original WSJT-X code, which is mostly written in Fortran (http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html). I believe that is the only 'documentation' of the FT8 protocol available, and the source code was used as such in this project.
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