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What digital mode, developed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Joe Taylor, allows amateur radio operators to make contacts with extremely weak signals?

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FT8, which stands for Franke-Taylor design with 8-second transmit intervals, can decode signals far below the noise floor that would be completely inaudible to the human ear. Since its release in 2017, FT8 has revolutionized ham radio by enabling contacts with as little as a few watts of power and a simple wire antenna. The mode has attracted thousands of new operators to amateur radio (Deals) because it demonstrates that reliable digital communication is possible under seemingly impossible conditions.