Attached is the PDF of the FT8 / WSJTX Presentation by Robert Lewis (KK7YSV) given at the March 14, 2026 Tonto Amateur Radio Association (TARA) monthly meeting.

FT8 (short for Franke–Taylor design, 8-FSK modulation) it is a frequency shift keying digital
mode of radio communication used by amateur radio operators worldwide. It was released in
2017, by its creators Joe Taylor, K1JT and Steve Franke, K9AN, as part of the WSJT software
package.

I will show some settings for WSJT but not how to set up your radio, there are too many
flavors of radios. I watched (3) YouTube videos to get my radio set up, they all had missing or
incorrect information. At the end of this document I have screen shots and notes of how to
set up the Yaesu FT991A. I inadvertently messed up one of the settings once and it took a
couple hours to recover. I keep these notes and screen shots in case I screw it up again.

GridTracker is described towards the end of this presentation, I want you to see a quick
screen shot of it since I will be mentioning Grid Squares quite a bit.

https://n7tar.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/FT8-Demo-r2.pdf