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Beacon kit updates
Stephen Farthing
Hi Guys, Just a quick note to say that the next batch of kits are being shipped over the next few days. Sorry about the delay but the demand exceeded my capacity to kit and I had to order more parts as our initial estimate of 50 kits for 30 meters was way to low.?
I will have a few 30 meter kits left and 15 40 meter kits and 15 80 meter kits once the existing orders are met. Hans and I are undecided about producing more beacon kits for a while. We will have sold 183 30 meter kits - some to DX locations e.g. Vietnam. This has made Hans and I very happy; we covered our costs and have some money in the bank for future projects.?
Thanks for all the support, 72/73 de Steve G0XAR (and Hans G0UPL) -- It is vain to do with more that which can be done with less. |
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Re: QRSS up and running
"Newton White"
开云体育Ken,
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I think I see you on the ?grabber
running at about 101400.45-101400.50
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Good job!
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Newt
k0nwt
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Re: [Knightsqrss] Availability of beacon kits
"hanssummers2000"
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Apologies for the delay, I was away on holiday last week. I passed my waiting list over to Steve G0XAR and he will be contacting each member individually. I understand from Steve that he's working through the list and expects to be complete by the end of this week. 73 Hans G0UPL --- In QRPLabs@..., "Charlie , W5COV" <cvest@...> wrote:
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Availability of beacon kits
"Stephen"
Guys,
Hans and I are delighted to announce that the new batch of beacon kits are ready. The pricing is as follows :- Each kit costs ?10, a spare programmed keyer chip is ?2 if ordered with a kit. Postage, payment and packing charges PER KIT are :- Packing in a Jiffy bag from Poundland - ?0.25 First class mail within UK - ?0.66 Airmail within Europe is ?1.31 Airmail Rest of World ?1.82 Paypal 4% of transaction costs. Secure delivery - please ask More than 1 kit? - please ask, we will try to keep post/packing charges to a minimum, How to order:- 1. If you have already given an order to me/Hans you are in the queue, if not please email me at squirrox@... with "Beacon Kit Order" in the subject line. Things I need to know are :- a) The callsign you want programmed into the keyer chip - please note "/" is not permitted at this time b) The band(s) you want, we only do 30, 40 and 80 meters c) How many kits you want. d) If you need a spare programmed keyer chip e) The country you want the kit sent to f) If you need secure delivery 2. I will acknowledge your order and later EMail you when i am ready to ship it to you. I will tell you how much the cost will be. You then pay me by Paypal - sorry but that is the only option for payment we have for now. Put the delivery address in the Paypal instructions. 3. Once Paypal tell me the money is in my account I will ship the kits to you. 4. This seems a bit complicated, but I don't want to take your money then find out we have run out of kits as we did at Dayton and have to get the funds back to you. 5 We are unlikely to run out of kits for a while - I have 130 PCBs in stock and it is easy to get more. 6. The next rally we will be selling at is the GQRP club at Rishworth in October, Pordenone in the spring is a strong possibility.. Er, thats it ...feel free to ask any questions. A new version of the source code for the keyer will be posted on Han's site shortly. It corrects a bug in the "Y" character and allows embedded spaces within callsigns. If there is sufficient interest i will post details of how to program your own keyer on the QRPLabs group. 72/3s from Steve G0XAR, (and Hans G0UPL) |
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Availability of beacon kits
"Stephen"
Guys,
Hans and I are delighted to announce that the new batch of beacon kits are ready. The pricing is as follows :- Each kit costs ?10, a spare programmed keyer chip is ?2 if ordered with a kit. Postage, payment and packing charges PER KIT are :- Packing in a Jiffy bag from Poundland - ?0.25 First class mail within UK - ?0.66 Airmail within Europe is ?1.31 Airmail Rest of World ?1.82 Paypal 4% of transaction costs. Secure delivery - please ask More than 1 kit? - please ask, we will try to keep post/packing charges to a minimum, How to order:- 1. If you have already given an order to me/Hans you are in the queue, if not please email me at squirrox@... with "Beacon Kit Order" in the subject line. Things I need to know are :- a) The callsign you want programmed into the keyer chip - please note "/" is not permitted at this time b) The band(s) you want, we only do 30, 40 and 80 meters c) How many kits you want. d) If you need a spare programmed keyer chip e) The country you want the kit sent to f) If you need secure delivery 2. I will acknowledge your order and later EMail you when i am ready to ship it to you. I will tell you how much the cost will be. You then pay me by Paypal - sorry but that is the only option for payment we have for now. Put the delivery address in the Paypal instructions. 3. Once Paypal tell me the money is in my account I will ship the kits to you. 4. This seems a bit complicated, but I don't want to take your money then find out we have run out of kits as we did at Dayton and have to get the funds back to you. 5 We are unlikely to run out of kits for a while - I have 130 PCBs in stock and it is easy to get more. 6. The next rally we will be selling at is the GQRP club at Rishworth in October, Pordenone in the spring is a strong possibility.. Er, thats it ...feel free to ask any questions. A new version of the source code for the keyer will be posted on Han's site shortly. It corrects a bug in the "Y" character and allows embedded spaces within callsigns. If there is sufficient interest i will post details of how to program your own keyer on the QRPLabs group. 72/3s from Steve G0XAR, (and Hans G0UPL) |
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Re: Photos of a 30m beacon build, and a question about the oscillator frequency
"Newton White"
开云体育Good Blog post Dave. On my return from a weeks trip overseas, I replaced my
4 'C' cells in the margarine container that houses my qrss kit from FDIM. I see
my k0nwt in the screen grab you posted at about 0090. I'm about 4400 miles from
Johan's grabber - fun stuff!
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72,
k0nwt
Newt
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Re: Photos of a 30m beacon build, and a question about the oscillator frequency
"hanssummers2000"
Congrats Dave! Glad you're having fun!
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The QRSS grabber compendium is a great place to start, for finding the grabbers. I guess you've seen it already. 0.000073 de Hans G0UPL --- In [email protected], Dave Clausen <daveclausen@...> wrote:
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Re: Photos of a 30m beacon build, and a question about the oscillator frequency
"Paul Daulton"
开云体育Dave the W4hbk grabber in Fla and kl1x/5 in ok are
running.
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I have gotten captures from both in the last few
days.
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I will have to check the DX grabbers and see if I
can be seen. From the mid south I doubt it , but who knows.
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Good luck
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Paul Daulton K5WMS
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Re: Photos of a 30m beacon build, and a question about the oscillator frequency
Dave Clausen
Success! I'm QRV now and visible on ON5EX's grabber. It looks like I'm
centered at about 10.140.0010 MHz, slowly drifting down, with a shift of 4 or 5 Hz. That is about what I estimated at home using a general-purpose audio spectrometer program on my Mac. This is cool. Are there any other working grabbers online I can check? So far ON5EX's is the only one I've found that is actively updating. 72/73, Dave W2VV |
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Re: Photos of a 30m beacon build, and a question about the oscillator frequency
"hanssummers2000"
Hi Dave
This week I finally put together the 30m QRSS beacon kit I bought fromWow Dave. Fine photos! Most of my photos are taken with the camera in my Nokia E90 mobile phone. Your camera is doing a much nicer job! I haven't heard of this problem before. Perhaps you just had a crystal that was some way off the normal frequency. I shouldn't think you made any mistake building, or that the remedial action you took would cause any other problem. Your "gimmick" capacitor looks long... I wonder if it will create a wide FSK much more than 5Hz. Did you measure your amount of FSK? Good luck! Let us know how it goes. 73 Hans G0UPL |
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Photos of a 30m beacon build, and a question about the oscillator frequency
Dave Clausen
Hi All-
This week I finally put together the 30m QRSS beacon kit I bought from G0UPL at FDIM. I added a 5v linear regulator to allow operation from a 9V battery, and an LED to show keying activity, and put the whole thing in an Altoids tin. I uploaded some photos here: One issue that came up is that I had a hard time getting my oscillator frequency down to 10.140.050 MHz. Initially I couldn't get it below 10.140.220. I removed and re-wound L1 with 38 turns but that only lowered me to about 10.140.100. So I added a 10pF capacitor across C9 and that brought my min frequency down below 10.140.000 (easily raised by tuning C9). Although it seems to work fine now, I'm wondering if I might have created a problem that I'm not aware of, or if the initial high frequency was an indication of a mistake I made during the build. Any thoughts? I hope to put the beacon on the air on Friday night from my club in Brooklyn, NY. This is my first attempt at QRSS and I'm really excited to look for my signal on the grabbers tomorrow. Thanks Hans for a great kit. 72/73, Dave W2VV |
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At ham radio 2010
Jim Stafford
Wb4mak es I are at ham radio 2010 in friedrichaffen. Will look for u all.
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W4QO Jim Stafford www.w4qo.com QRP - When you care enough to send the very least! --- On Wed, 6/23/10, Mike <mikeberg@...> wrote:
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Re: Hans Summer's web page 30m transmitter
"Mike"
Thanks Hans,
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I figured I might experiment with that design until you're able to start shipping kits. 73 Mike N0QBH --- In [email protected], "hanssummers2000" <hans.summers@...> wrote:
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Re: Hans Summer's web page 30m transmitter
"hanssummers2000"
Hi Mike
Can anyone tell me the values of the voltage divider resistors biasing LED varicap in the schematic on this page?Even I can't tell you that, sorry :-( Looks like I shrunk that diagram too much. The good news is that the values are entirely non critical. You could try with 33k in both positions to start with. I believe I chose the values in haste. It was merely to achieve, together with the 100K resistor to the 4-bit digital-to-analogue converter, the right amount of shift that I wanted. No magic to it. I think it's just a matter of playing with the values until you get the shift amount you want, subject to the component tolerances and LED characteristics you have in your circuit. 73 Hans G0UPL |
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