Post #1378744
2026-04-09 19:17 UTC
The monthly #JS8 party comes up again!
From Saturday, April 11, 19 UTC for 24 hours until Sunday 19 UTC, more people will be active via JS8 than usually. This is no contest, just a time of enhanced activity. You can also start earlier or linger on later, if you want to. It is all quite relaxed.
https://js8call.groups.io/g/main/viewevent?repeatid=12902
If you don't have the JS8Call program installed yet and want to change that: Version 2.5.2 is the latest as I'm writing this, and you can pull it from
https://github.com/JS8Call-improved/JS8Call-improved/releases
Replies (3)
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@dj3ei@mastodon.radio 2026-04-09 19:31
For perspective: I'm a ragchewer. I typically count a #JS8 party 🧵 a success if I manage four QSOs during the course of the weekend - but with at least two of them (if not all four) lasting longer than an hour. In some other digimodes, you typically work the same station on the same band only once and then never again. In JS8, I like to meet both new folks, but also the same friends again and again. It can be fun to pick up a conversation right where we left off last time, weeks or months ago.
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@g7kse@mastodon.radio 2026-04-09 20:18
@dj3ei hopefully see you there.
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@G8RKE@mastodon.radio 2026-04-11 22:10
@dj3ei I'm QRV on 40m currently. May QSY to 80m in a bit as so far no replies and FT8 signals are everywhere.