[backwoods-engineer]

I love FT8. It's so much faster to make a contact than the older JT65, and almost as sensitive. I worked New Zealand from Alabama, with -16 dB signal to noise ratio!

I prefer the computer-based digital modes to HF voice; the background noise is terrible, my hearing is not good, I have tinnitus, and I just can't pull stations out of the noise. But Joe Taylor's software WSJT-X sure can.

[WildHighlander57]

Bookmarking your post; many thanks, as I too am hearing impaired.