It’s truly amazing what can be accomplished with digital modes like FT8…
Noise
Have a look at this waterfall, it looks like the 10 meter band is dead, it only shows a few very faint signals in the 10 meter band:
![](https://geronimo370.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WSJTX-noise-10mtr-1024x383.png)
Despite the weak signals, the FT8 program I use, WSJT-X managed to extract the data from the noise. I thought that was pretty amazing. I also checked two other bands, 20 and 40 meters:
![](https://geronimo370.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WSJTX-noise-10-20-40mtr-1024x467.png)
As you can see, the signals here are a bit stronger, no problems here.
It seems to be somewhat contradictory with the condition indicator by GridTracker, another program I use to pin received stations on the world map: