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Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

Ed - K9EW
 

Hi Hans,

Sorry, I forgot about Yahoo.

I just posted the pictures in the file you created with my callsign.

Thanks - ed, k9ew


On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:50 AM, hanssummers2000 <hans.summers@...> wrote:
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Hi Ed



> I attached an inside, and outside photo of my beacon.

The photos don't come through on the yahoo groups web interface. Could you please upload them to the photos section of the group? Or send them to me via email directly?

73 Hans G0UPL
Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

Ed - K9EW
 

Hi Mike,

That extra board is the 5V regulator, held in place with hot-melt glue.

Thanks for the note.

73,
ed - k9ew


On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:53 AM, WE0H.Mike <we0h.mike@...> wrote:
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Interesting, I got the pictures when Ed posted his reply. Blue case,
LED, what is that little board off to the right inside with the wires to
the beacon board?

Mike
WE0H



Hans wrote:
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> Hi Ed
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> > I attached an inside, and outside photo of my beacon.
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> The photos don't come through on the yahoo groups web interface. Could
> you please upload them to the photos section of the group? Or send
> them to me via email directly?
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> 73 Hans G0UPL
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Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

"WE0H.Mike"
 

Interesting, I got the pictures when Ed posted his reply. Blue case, LED, what is that little board off to the right inside with the wires to the beacon board?

Mike
WE0H



Hans wrote:



Hi Ed

I attached an inside, and outside photo of my beacon.
The photos don't come through on the yahoo groups web interface. Could you please upload them to the photos section of the group? Or send them to me via email directly?

73 Hans G0UPL
Http://www.hanssummers.com
Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

"hanssummers2000"
 

Hi Ed

I attached an inside, and outside photo of my beacon.
The photos don't come through on the yahoo groups web interface. Could you please upload them to the photos section of the group? Or send them to me via email directly?

73 Hans G0UPL
Http://www.hanssummers.com
Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

Ed - K9EW
 

Hi Hans,

Thanks for the email, and for answering my question about the "grabbers".

I attached an inside, and outside photo of my beacon.

Thanks again (to you and Steve) for making the kits available.

73,
ed - k9ew



On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:24 AM, hanssummers2000 <hans.summers@...> wrote:
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Hi Ed,



> I just put my QRSS kit from Hans Summers on the air a couple of days ago and would appreciate hearing of any "sightings" of my signal.

Great job on finishing the kit and getting it on air. Don't forget Steve G0XAR! He and I produced this kit collaboratively and equally! At Dayton I was just the smiley face of QRSS Labs kit sales :-D


> What are the "various online grabbers" referenced in the QRSS Beacon Kit? Are these people, websites, software...?

Websites. People who set up their computer and an Argo screen, and hook it up to a website so that what their receiver/Argo sees is updated to a web page every few minutes. There is a QRSS Grabber compendium site at . I don't know if this has links to ALL the grabbers around, but I think it is fairly comprehensive. It allows you to instantly shrunken versions fo the screens, and if you want to see any in detail, follow the link to the grabber website. Not all the grabbers are online all the time.

Nice! I see you! Very clear, right now as of 12:00 GMT (13:00 BST here in London, 08:00 EST) I see your signal on the grabber of W1BW at . Your signal looks to be on 10,140,029 / 135 as you predicted. Your FSK is about 6Hz which is marginally on the wide side, you might want to trim that "gimmick" capacitor slightly to get it down to 4 or 5Hz. But no big deal.

Just in case the path to W1BW isn't still there when you read this, I took a copy of the current image and stored it on the group photos, see:
. It seemed to get shrunk a bit in the Yahoo-isation process. But if you want, I can send it to you direct via email.

Bruce W1BW is in Concord, MA (FN42HL). According to my calculations, that's 849 miles from your location. Congratulations!

Conditions seem not too great on 30m at the moment. QRSS is all about patience too ;-) But certainly this little beacon kit is well capable of worldwide results. Check out my pages:
(Caribbean holiday)
(Turkey holiday)
and look at the map of receiving stations etc. All of that was with this exact same circuit, which later became the kit (without modifications from my original). I used a basic wire dipole antenna, with balun at the centre and 5m of RG58 coax direct to the beacon output. No attempts at tuning the antenna e.g. trimming bits of wire off it until it resonated perfectly. None of that. Just my whole low-tech approach to radio!

0.000073 de Hans G0UPL
Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

"hanssummers2000"
 

Ed

Still seeing you on the W1BW grabber. I put a few more shots in for you.

I see AA6DY above you at 10,140,061 / 65 too. If I'm not mistaken, he's another of the kits.

I see you on the W4HBK grabber too, though I don't much like his colour scheme right now . W4HBK is in Florida, distance 790 miles to you.

So your sigs are getting out!

0.000073 de Hans G0UPL
Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

"hanssummers2000"
 

Ed

Still seeing you on the W1BW grabber. I put a few more shots in for you.

I see AA6DY above you at 10,140,061 / 65 too. If I'm not mistaken, he's another of the kits.

I see you on the W4HBK grabber too, though I don't much like his colour scheme right now . W4HBK is in Florida, distance 790 miles to you.

So your sigs are getting out!

0.000073 de Hans G0UPL
Re: K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

"hanssummers2000"
 

Hi Ed,

I just put my QRSS kit from Hans Summers on the air a couple of days ago and would appreciate hearing of any "sightings" of my signal.
Great job on finishing the kit and getting it on air. Don't forget Steve G0XAR! He and I produced this kit collaboratively and equally! At Dayton I was just the smiley face of QRSS Labs kit sales :-D

What are the "various online grabbers" referenced in the QRSS Beacon Kit? Are these people, websites, software...?
Websites. People who set up their computer and an Argo screen, and hook it up to a website so that what their receiver/Argo sees is updated to a web page every few minutes. There is a QRSS Grabber compendium site at . I don't know if this has links to ALL the grabbers around, but I think it is fairly comprehensive. It allows you to instantly shrunken versions fo the screens, and if you want to see any in detail, follow the link to the grabber website. Not all the grabbers are online all the time.

Nice! I see you! Very clear, right now as of 12:00 GMT (13:00 BST here in London, 08:00 EST) I see your signal on the grabber of W1BW at . Your signal looks to be on 10,140,029 / 135 as you predicted. Your FSK is about 6Hz which is marginally on the wide side, you might want to trim that "gimmick" capacitor slightly to get it down to 4 or 5Hz. But no big deal.

Just in case the path to W1BW isn't still there when you read this, I took a copy of the current image and stored it on the group photos, see:
. It seemed to get shrunk a bit in the Yahoo-isation process. But if you want, I can send it to you direct via email.

Bruce W1BW is in Concord, MA (FN42HL). According to my calculations, that's 849 miles from your location. Congratulations!

Conditions seem not too great on 30m at the moment. QRSS is all about patience too ;-) But certainly this little beacon kit is well capable of worldwide results. Check out my pages:
(Caribbean holiday)
(Turkey holiday)
and look at the map of receiving stations etc. All of that was with this exact same circuit, which later became the kit (without modifications from my original). I used a basic wire dipole antenna, with balun at the centre and 5m of RG58 coax direct to the beacon output. No attempts at tuning the antenna e.g. trimming bits of wire off it until it resonated perfectly. None of that. Just my whole low-tech approach to radio!

0.000073 de Hans G0UPL
Re: Guide to receiving QRSS signals

"hanssummers2000"
 

Thanks Steve

For those of you who need a "Receiving QRSS 101" you can do no better than look at the website .
Nice guide! I hadn't read it before. Note the image at the top of the page: G0UPL (me) in the lower trace ;-) This is my so-called "Junkbox" beacon I ran in my attic for 6 months. That was my 2nd QRSS project. See .

0.000073 de Hans G0UPL
Re: Signalink USB soundcard

Jay Sissom
 

I have multiple sound cards in my Windows XP computer and Argo would only use one of them no matter what the settings are.? This seems to be a bug in the ARGO software.

73
Jay
W9IUF

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Mike <mikeberg@...> wrote:

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Greetings to the group.
I'm unable to get ARGO to work with my Signalink USB external soundcard.
ARGO wants to default to my onboard soundcard instead.
Any idea how I can change this? I don't want to change my system wide default.
My operating system is Win 7.

73
Mike N0QBH
Signalink USB soundcard

"Mike"
 

Greetings to the group.
I'm unable to get ARGO to work with my Signalink USB external soundcard.
ARGO wants to default to my onboard soundcard instead.
Any idea how I can change this? I don't want to change my system wide default.
My operating system is Win 7.

73
Mike N0QBH
Guide to receiving QRSS signals

"Stephen"
 

Guys,

For those of you who need a "Receiving QRSS 101" you can do no better than look at the website .

Regards,

Steve G0XAR
K9EW QRSS on 10.140,033

"k9ewqrp"
 

Hello,

I just put my QRSS kit from Hans Summers on the air a couple of days ago and would appreciate hearing of any "sightings" of my signal.

What are the "various online grabbers" referenced in the QRSS Beacon Kit? Are these people, websites, software...?

tnx es 73,
ed - k9ew
www.k9ew.us
Re: I'm having second thoughts on QRSS....

"hanssummers2000"
 

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!).

0.000073 de Hans G0UPL

--- In QRPLabs@..., "w8bh_qrp" <bhall66@...> wrote:

Jim,
I have had a similar thought, that there must be a 'better way'. It doesn't have to be WSPR, but some easy method of reply/confirmation.

In the meantime, if you see my call on 30, pse let me know. I have Hans' kit running now.
73, Bruce.

--- In QRPLabs@..., Jim Stafford <qrp@> wrote:

I bought the kit at FDIM but have not assembled it yet. ?However, I have been running the software and watching 30M 10.140. ?Here is my problem... ?I see some callsigns but what do I do with them? ?Send an email to that person?
Re: Greetings

"Ian"
 

Crystals are available from the Genesis Radio group for this and many other frequencies of interest to the QRSS band of people. Typical cost is less than a dollar plus postage. see at the bottom of the page for more detail, you may even get them for free this week.
Ian VK3XID
Re: I'm having second thoughts on QRSS....

"w8bh_qrp"
 

Jim,
I have had a similar thought, that there must be a 'better way'. It doesn't have to be WSPR, but some easy method of reply/confirmation.

In the meantime, if you see my call on 30, pse let me know. I have Hans' kit running now.
73, Bruce.

--- In QRPLabs@..., Jim Stafford <qrp@...> wrote:

I bought the kit at FDIM but have not assembled it yet. ?However, I have been running the software and watching 30M 10.140. ?Here is my problem... ?I see some callsigns but what do I do with them? ?Send an email to that person?
Re: I'm having second thoughts on QRSS....

ve7sl@...
 

Is there not a "chat room" such as K3UK has running for various groups:
this page has been kind of wonky for several months now. I wonder if he is aware of the problem.


WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook":

Re: I'm having second thoughts on QRSS....

"Stephen"
 

Jim,

The usual procedure is to take a screenshot of the signal and either to post it here or on the knightlights reflector. That way we all get to share what you have received. The owner of the beacon you have received can then take a copy and keep it for their records should they wish to.

Regards,

Steve G0XAR

--- In QRPLabs@..., Jim Stafford <qrp@...> wrote:

I bought the kit at FDIM but have not assembled it yet. ?However, I have been running the software and watching 30M 10.140. ?Here is my problem... ?I see some callsigns but what do I do with them? ?Send an email to that person? ?Is there not some common site where you post who you saw when so all can benefit from what I see? ?
Is there not a "chat room" such as K3UK has running for various groups:? ?Perhaps he would not mind if we posted our spots under one of the other headings for all to see such as the Ragchew page IF we preceded each post with QRSS: so they would stand out. ?I see that Ragchew does not get much activity and K3UK is a good guy and might go along with it.
Don't have a problem with having to do it manually vs fully automatic on WSPR but what chance do I have that I will ever find out if someone copies me once I get on the air? ?I have googled and gone to several sites even the ones that show online what they are copying but it just seems all too complicated when WSPR does it so easily and automatically.

W4QO Jim Stafford www.w4qo.com QRP - When you care enough to send the very least!
I'm having second thoughts on QRSS....

Jim Stafford
 

I bought the kit at FDIM but have not assembled it yet. ?However, I have been running the software and watching 30M 10.140. ?Here is my problem... ?I see some callsigns but what do I do with them? ?Send an email to that person? ?Is there not some common site where you post who you saw when so all can benefit from what I see? ?

Is there not a "chat room" such as K3UK has running for various groups:?http://www.obriensweb.com/sked/index.html ?Perhaps he would not mind if we posted our spots under one of the other headings for all to see such as the Ragchew page IF we preceded each post with QRSS: so they would stand out. ?I see that Ragchew does not get much activity and K3UK is a good guy and might go along with it.

Don't have a problem with having to do it manually vs fully automatic on WSPR but what chance do I have that I will ever find out if someone copies me once I get on the air? ?I have googled and gone to several sites even the ones that show online what they are copying but it just seems all too complicated when WSPR does it so easily and automatically.

W4QO Jim Stafford www.w4qo.com QRP - When you care enough to send the very least!
Poll results for QRPLabs

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The following QRPLabs poll is now closed. Here are the
final results:


POLL QUESTION: Hans and I are CONSIDERING doing another batch of beacon kits as we
are being asked for more but are sold out though we do have a
number of PCBs spare. To give us an indication of how many to
produce and for what bands you are interested in it please
complete the following poll.

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- I would be interested in a kit for 30 meters, 5 votes, 55.56%
- I would be interested in a kit for 40 meters, 3 votes, 33.33%
- I would be interested in a kit for 80 meters, 1 votes, 11.11%



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