<div>                Chris -<br><br>The most important and difficult thing to accomplish is make your first contact.  That will let you know if you have correctly made all the software and hardware interfaces required.  After that you can learn about proper operating procedure.  Tim&#39;s tips are important.  He bolded &quot;hold tx frequency&quot; in the wsjtx software and you should start with that, then you can move on.<br><br>Good luck - Paul<br>            </div>            <div class="yahoo_quoted" style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ccc;padding-left:1ex;">                        <div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">                                <div>                        On Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 01:42:01 PM EDT, Christopher Lennon via bars &lt;bars@w1hh.org&gt; wrote:                    </div>                    <div><br></div>                    <div><br></div>                                                <div><div id="yiv5539985077"><div><p dir="ltr">I have a Xiegu G90 and I recently bought the DE19 interface.&nbsp; It has a soundcard built in so the computer connects via USB. </p><p dir="ltr">There are lots of YouTube videos to make the connection with that setup, so I am not worried about that.&nbsp; But tips like the one you shared.&nbsp; Good operating practice.&nbsp; Do you just pick thing up along the way or is there the WSJT Bible?</p><div>Sent from my phone.</div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5539985077gmail_quote yiv5539985077gmail_quote_container"><div id="yiv5539985077yqt23005" class="yiv5539985077yqt1535807291"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv5539985077gmail_attr">On Thu, May 1, 2025, 1:31\u202fPM Verhulst via bars &lt;<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bars@w1hh.org" href="mailto:bars@w1hh.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">bars@w1hh.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv5539985077gmail_quote"><u></u>          <div>    The makers of Easylog ham software (which I REALLY like) have    created an FT8 book. I have not seen it but some here may be    interested.<br clear="none">    <a shape="rect" href="https://tinyurl.com/57s8h3jc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://tinyurl.com/57s8h3jc</a><br clear="none">    <br clear="none">    Tony W1DYS<br clear="none">    <br clear="none">    <div>On 5/1/2025 10:16 AM, Tim - K1DC via      bars wrote:<br clear="none">    </div>    <blockquote type="cite">            <p><font size="4" face="Verdana">For those of you that may be new          to the FT8/FT4 digital modes - Welcome!</font></p>      <p><font size="4" face="Verdana">Please, PLEASE, make sure that          you <b>check (enable) that 'Hold TX Freq' check box </b>within          WSJT-X (or the equivalent in your software of choice).&nbsp; This          will prevent you from changing your TX frequency to the TX          frequency of the station you are calling.&nbsp; The result is that          all callers will be spread out over the 3khz passband rather          than all bunched up on the TX frequency of the station they          are calling.&nbsp; This is especially important when trying to          contact special event stations or a rare DX station.</font></p>      <p><font size="4" face="Verdana">Also, try to set your FT8 TX          frequency on an even 50hz increment (500hz, 1150hz, 2200hz,          etc) within the passband.&nbsp; This will maximize the use of the          resource and preventing potential QRM with signals          overlapping.</font></p>      <p><font size="4" face="Verdana">73 &amp; Good DX!</font></p>      <p><font size="4" face="Verdana">Tim/K1DC<br clear="none">        </font></p>      <div>-- <br clear="none">        <p style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;">Courageously          sent from a non-Apple device that <em>includes</em> a          headphone jack.</p>        <hr>        <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">                <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="150"><a shape="rect" href="https://k1dc.com/img/k1dc-qsl-card-front.png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="https://k1dc.com/img/k1dc-qsl-card-front-sm.jpg" width="130"></a></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">                        <h3>Tim&nbsp;Carter - K1DC</h3>                      </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="30">&nbsp;</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="30">&nbsp;</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">                        <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="30">                                <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><img src="https://k1dc.com/img/phone-icon.png" width="13"></td></tr></tbody></table>                              </td><td colspan="1" rows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