ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

PSK31

PSK31 is like an secret language that computers can speak to each other. It's a way of sending messages without actually talking or writing them down.

Imagine you are playing a game of telephone with your friends, but instead of talking, you're sending pictures of letters back and forth on your phones. The pictures are using PSK31.

It works by changing the strength of a radio signal really quickly to match up with the different letters and symbols being sent. So when a computer wants to send a "hello" message, it will change the strength of the signal to represent the letters "h-e-l-l-o" and the other computer receiving the message knows exactly how to translate it back into words.

PSK31 is really helpful for people who like to talk to each other over long distances using radios. It's also really quiet and doesn't take up a lot of space so lots of people can use it at the same time on the same radio frequency.

Overall, PSK31 is a way of computers sending messages to each other really quickly and quietly using radio signals.