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All,

As Steve says, if you join the Knights QRSS group (link at the bottom of my page ) and announce your beacon operation, you will see that when people see your signal they will either post to you direct, or back to the Knights QRSS group. Alternatively you can watch the online grabbers.

QRSS is not for everyone. It has advantages and disadvantages relative to automatic modes such as WSPR. Yes, QRSS is more manual. But therein lies a lot of the fun! Believe it or not: when things are made EASIER, that does not necessarily equate to MORE FUN!!!

QRSS has been popular for a long time before WSPR became popular. QRSS does have some advantages! You can build a simple QRSS beacon with just a handful of junkbox transistors (as few as 3!) and be on air with it in an hour or two. With NO computer! Yes, you need a computer to receive QRSS, as you do for WSPR. But not to send it.

QRSS needs less power than WSPR too, so suited for battery operation, holiday operation etc.

QRSS is ideally suited to simple homebrew transmitters and receivers. If building your own equipment, experimenting with it and improving it, and learning about all the challenges along the way, is your thing... then QRSS is great. On the other hand, if you want a fully automated WSPR station then you can plug your $$$$-worth of black box transceiver into your $$$$-worth of computer and away you go, fully automated and you can see where your signals are heard very easily.

So like the whole of the rest of amateur radio - it has loads and loads of fascinating aspects, and QRSS is just one more little niche. Radio is a wide church! QRSS isn't for everyone! But believe me, I know several people who have been passionately devoted to QRSS for 10 years, to the exclusion of any other aspect of our hobby! (not me, I hasten to add!).

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