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New FT8MON decoder

A project log for ESP32 HF QRP FT8 Transceiver

A compact digitally controlled RF 1.8 to 28 MHz platform for HF amateur. DSP mod/demod, integrated FT8 codec and FT8 QSO management.

guido-iw5alzGuido - IW5ALZ 07/27/2026 at 08:080 Comments

I forked and modified https://github.com/guido57/ft8mon (by Robert Morris, AB1HL) to obtain a C++ program with reduced memory and processing needs.
My aim is to port it to ESP32-S3 to substitute the actually working decode based on ft8lib. 
The testing results on linux (see below) are very encouraging as it performs the same (or slightly better) of WSJT-X.

TEST: 6 hours on 20m band

Benchmark WSJT-X vs PyFT8 vs FT8lib vs FT8mon

using https://github.com/kgoba/ft8_lib/tree/master/test/wav/20m_busy wav test flies

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