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Re:Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News in... by weld on Saturday August 17, 2019 @08:56PM (#20727487)
It won't be long till dissidents are using FT8. Audio is dead. http://www.arrl.org/news/ft8-mode-is-latest-bright-shiny-obj...
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Re:Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News in... by SamPatt on Saturday August 17, 2019 @09:05PM (#20727533)
Probably JS8Call instead. It's an FT8 fork that allows for arbitrary text. Worth checking out.
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Re:Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News in... by kawfey on Saturday August 17, 2019 @09:18PM (#20727597)
It'll take a ridiculously loooooong time for them to even say "CHINA BAD. HK GOOD. DON'T BELIEVE TV."

VOA experimented successfully with using other MFSK modes that can be decoded asynchronously, quickly, and with fldigi, and its now a regular occurrence. https://voaradiogram.net/

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Re:Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News in... by SamPatt on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:16PM (#20728017)
That message would take about one minute to send. But it could be sent with very low power and received well below the noise floor.

I'm not suggesting JS8 is the ideal communication mode for dissidents, only that it's far better than FT8 for arbitrary text.

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