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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don't.

You randomly position yourself somewhere in the tiny sliver of a sub-band, and TX. An important bit of WSPR operation is to only transmit in 10-20% of the windows, not all of them. I guess it is a form of poor man's TDMA.

Another trick, also used by FT8 SWL mode: you decode a batch of signals, you regenerate their audio and subtract that from your RXed audio. This is called a pass. Repeat for a few passes, decode after each.

Hidden signals discovered like this are not perfect and rely heavily on FEC, especially if something else masks them, but hey do show up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thx for the answer, also very interesting, never heard about that FT8 audio subtraction method before but makes total sense :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My assumption would be it has some form of dynamic frequency selection algorithm so it sits there and listens for a bit to find an empty channel and uses it for broadcast.