PSK31 on Android DroidPSK Yaesu FT-817 FT-818
In this video we demonstrate a lightweight man-portable PSK configuration, using a Samsung Galaxy Tab, FT-817, & WolphiLINK interface.
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This setup is designed to demonstrate the minimal gear required to run PSK31 man-portable using an Android Smartphone, DroidPSK, the WolphiLink Interface, and a Yaesu FT-8x7.
DroidPSK is available in the Google Play store. Thankfully, It is an ad-free paid app. As found on desktop PSK applications, DroidPSK has a real time waterfall to display the incoming streams of data. It has customizable macros to help speed reduce the amount of typing with the sometimes awkward virtual keyboards of tablets and smartphones. It also have so built in automation to also designed to ease returns during QSO's.
From a Survival, off grid, or radio expedition perspective, DroidPSK, the FT-817 and the WolphiLINK interface, allow amateur radio operators to use minimal gear, with the same functionality as full size base or field stations! Moreover, this minimal configuration means when operating man-portable, youll have more ounces and grams for other essential items, rather than wasting precious carrying capacity on unnecessary items.
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Android fanatic and videoblogger, Survival technology is a retired comms professional and expat living and having worked out of Scandinavia for the past couple of decades. Operationally, he has deployed in Europe, North Africa, Baltic, Southern Caucasus, Middle East, from Iceland to South Africa, in peaceful and not so peaceful zones...
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