HamSphere® 5.0

5B4AIT CC FT8 - FT8 and FT4 Digital Modes Plug-in for HamSphere 5 2026-06-12 09:11	Admin Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 1,062

CC FT8, FT8 and FT4 Digital Modes Plug-in for HamSphere 5 Decode and transmit the world's most popular digital modes, directly inside HamSphere Get it here: https://shop.hamsphere.com/product_info.php?products_id=323385 CC FT8 brings full FT8 and FT4 weak-signal digital mode capability to your HamSphere station. There is no external software, no WSJT-X and no sound card routing. Everything runs inside the transceiver. Click a station on the band activity list and the plugin builds your entire reply sequence, tracks the timing slots and works the QSO for you. The idea is simple. Watch the band activity list fill with decoded stations, click the one you want to answer, and the plugin extracts their callsign, sets your transmit offset, converts the measured report into a sendable token and arms transmit in the correct time slot. When your partner replies, click their row and the plugin works the rest of the QSO. To call CQ instead, set the sequencer to AUTO, pick the CQ row and press TX ON. The HamSphere FT8 and FT4 Plug-in CC FT8 is a serious digital mode implementation built on proven, reference-grade DSP algorithms, wrapped in the clean and intuitive CC-Line interface you already know. It handles slot timing, band frequencies and slot parity automatically, so you can concentrate on working stations. Dual mode operation: FT8 with 15-second slots and FT4 with 7.5-second slots. Switch between them with a single click. The plugin handles slot timing, period bars and operating frequencies for each mode automatically. Key features: Full WSJT-X-compatible decoder, complete LDPC and CRC error correction with frequency and time oversampling. Decodes standard messages, CQ calls, grid locators, signal reports and free text. Click-to-work QSO automation, pick a decoded station and the full six-message reply sequence is built for you. Automatic EVEN and ODD slot synchronization, the plugin stays interleaved with your partner and re-syncs live, so you never transmit on top of each other. Live FFT waterfall spanning 200 to 3000 Hz with adaptive AGC and heat-map color grading, with your own transmission shown live as it goes out. Unique per-callsign CQ tone, your CQ is placed at a frequency derived from your callsign so you never clash with other operators. Automatic band frequencies, the correct FT8 and FT4 frequency for each band is set and locked, with no retuning mid-transmission. AUTO and MANUAL sequencing, step through the standard QSO and disarm cleanly after the final 73, or repeat your selected message for full hands-on control. 13-character free-text message slot, store, edit and recall your own short personal messages. Color-coded band activity, CQ calls in green, CQ DX in red, messages to you in orange and everything else in grey, with one-click CQ-only filtering. TX monitor, a local sidetone lets you hear your own transmission as it goes out, just like a real transceiver. Live signal stats, SNR, DF offset and a running decode count updated in real time. Clean transmit safeguards, an instant HALT button, a slot guard against late keying and self-echo filtering so you never accidentally work yourself. Auto sample rate detection, adapts to your audio configuration automatically on startup. Technical: Full GFSK modulation with Gaussian pulse shaping. Complete WSJT-X-compatible receive chain with an LDPC (174,91) belief-propagation decoder, 14-bit CRC, Costas sync detection and frequency and time oversampling. Standard message, free-text and non-standard callsign unpacking with hashed-callsign lookup. 2048-point FFT waterfall with adaptive AGC. Automatic UTC slot-parity tracking with live QSO partner re-synchronization. CC FT8 is powerful, accurate and genuinely fun to operate. Pick a station, share a report with the other side of the world and let the plugin handle the timing and the sequence. This is HamSphere digital like you have never experienced it before. Paid plug-in. Compatible with all HamSphere skins. Requires HamSphere 5.0 or later.
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