It's your clock likely. Check your clock vs time.is

Needs to be almost perfectly sync on cpu

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I'll have to figure out how to set the clock on it.

It's the clock on your computer running ft8. It needs to be with I think 300ms of the signal senders clock.

Everytime my ft8 doesn't decode, that's what the culprit is. My clock has slightly drifted from global sync.

Oh, I think I see now, it's built in decoding. Yes, for sure I bet it's the clock sync then.

I synced the clock using RDS on broadcast FM. Still no decodes.

Hmm. Then I'm not sure.

It doesn't have to be perfect. When I am operating FT8 in my truck (parked), I am often up to 3 seconds off and still get some decodes.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure FT8 sends all the info multiple times in the 15s interval and FT4 is the exact same encoding with fewer repeats.

Wow. Not me. Anything over a half a second, I never get decodes on ft8.

Unless that's js8call, not sure....