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A step-by-step guide to a first FT8 contact: connecting the radio to a computer, installing the free WSJT-X program, setting the clock to within a second of UTC, and getting the receive and transmit audio levels right. Those three settings cause most beginners' problems, so the guide spends most of its time on them, then walks through answering a CQ, logging the contact and checking PSK Reporter to see where the signal was heard. Read more…