WSJT-X: Digital Modes for Weak Signal Communications in Amateur Radio

Joe Taylor, K1JT · JoeTaylor.WSJT-X

Weak signal ham radio communication

WSJT-X is a computer program designed to facilitate basic amateur radio communication using very weak signals. The first four letters in the program name stand for “Weak Signal communication by K1JT,” while the suffix “-X” indicates that WSJT-X started as an extended branch of an earlier program, WSJT, first released in 2001. WSJT-X implements communication protocols or "modes" called FST4, FST4W, FT4, FT8, JT4, JT9, JT65, Q65, MSK144, and WSPR, as well as one called Echo for detecting and measuring your own radio signals reflected from the Moon. These modes were designed for making reliable, confirmed QSOs under extreme weak-signal conditions.

winget install --id JoeTaylor.WSJT-X --exact --source winget

Latest 3.0.0

Release Notes

WSJT-X 3.0.0 introduces a number of new features and capabilities, many of which are already familiar to users of Release Candidate WSJT-X 3.0.0-rc1. Among the more important enhancements since version 2.7.0 are the following:

  • Single-click Band Buttons, enabled from the View menu.

  • FT8 Decoding option for parallel processing in concurrent threads, and other changes that yield improved decoding speed and performance.

  • Optional filters to suppress display of various categories of decoded messages.

  • Options to Wait and Reply, Wait and Call, and Wait and Pounce.

  • Audible Alerts to play a sound alerting you to reception of a message with specified content.

  • Transmitted Power and SWR can be displayed (as reported by the radio) in a Status Bar label. Transmission can be stopped automatically if SWR exceeds 2.5. These features work with most modern radios controlled via Hamlib or FLRig.

  • Band Hopping checkboxes for FT8, FT4 and MSK144 can activate sequential reception intervals on the main sub-bands, or on up to eight specified dial frequencies.

  • High Resolution Monitors are supported with better scaling of fonts and widget sizes.

  • "Highlight orange" and "Highlight blue" features on the File | Settings | Colors tab can now be used to highlight directional calls (DX, SOTA, POTA, YOTA, etc.).

  • MSK144 operation: "73" messages addressed to MyCall are now also displayed in the right pane. A blank line is inserted between decodes for different TR periods.

  • Moon ephemeris charts can be downloaded from the Help menu.

  • New EME Features include easier ways to select dial frequencies within an EME sub-band and to offset your Tx frequency by an integer number of MHz from the Rx frequency. New buttons are provided for quick access to Echo mode and six popular Q65 sub-modes.

  • Echo mode allows you to transmit your callsign (or any other 6-character group) to the Moon and decode its echo.

  • QMAP and MAP65 offer spotting to the CQLive and PSKReporter web sites and improved handling of compound callsigns.

Installer type: nullsoft

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Details

Homepage
https://wsjtx.github.io/wsjtx/
License
GPL-3.0
Publisher
Joe Taylor, K1JT
Support
https://wsjtx.github.io/wsjtx/support.html
Copyright
Copyright 2001 - 2026 by Joe Taylor, K1JT, and the WSJT Development Team

Tags

amateur-radioham-radioradio

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