LongChat - a new(ish) QRP "chirp" mode
I found this via a post on QRZ today; Oguz Tanrisever (TA2STO), a ham out of Ankara Turkey, has developed a new digital mode that he's calling "LongChat" which allows keyboard-to-keyboard communications over virtually any frequency using a side variety of transmission modes (FM/SSB/etc). It currently only works with a few radios (IC-7300, IC-705, FT-991A). Apparently, he first posted LongChat in 2022 via a QSL.net link for testing with his friends and there are a lot of articles pointing to this website, which he hasn't updated since then. If you're interested in checking it out, the proper link is here and there is a video describing how it works here; https://youtu.be/ixmKc-gDQT0. You definitely need to make sure you're using the latest version. I haven't tried this yet but it's intriguing--it looks like it works at power levels as low as 45 microwatts (!) and as high as full legal limit. There's also a good blog posting on LongChat which inclu...
