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QMX WSPR Anomaly

 

I was trying out WSPR with my high band QMX with settings as depicted in the instruction manual. I had my QLG2 attached and working with the green light blinking. I had the transmit set to 4 after the hour as in the instructions, and when that time arrived, the rig kicked into transmit mode. All appeared to be going with when the display suddenly changed to read the following: 14,097,140 CW 5 0 On the next line: VK4JAZ QG62 30.
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And there it remained, as if stuck. After a good few minutes I shut it down as nothing appeared to be happening.?
Any ideas what this means?
 

Grant,

A wild guess here is that you did not select WSPR in the Beacon Menu or perhaps you did, and the selection jumped??

John
KK4ITX



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On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 02:45:08 AM EDT, Grant via groups.io <gmcduling@...> wrote:


I was trying out WSPR with my high band QMX with settings as depicted in the instruction manual. I had my QLG2 attached and working with the green light blinking. I had the transmit set to 4 after the hour as in the instructions, and when that time arrived, the rig kicked into transmit mode. All appeared to be going with when the display suddenly changed to read the following: 14,097,140 CW 5 0 On the next line: VK4JAZ QG62 30.
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And there it remained, as if stuck. After a good few minutes I shut it down as nothing appeared to be happening.?
Any ideas what this means?
 

The operations manual states the following, which looks much like your display (with the exception of the CW):
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During the actual WSPR message transmission, the display shows something like this:
14,097,140 122 2
G0UPL IO90 37
The elements of this display are explained as follows:
14,097,140 Transmission frequency (tone 0)
122 Current symbol is 122 (of 162 symbols making up a WSPR transmission)
2 Current tone being transmitted (one of 0, 1, 2 or 3)
G0UPL Callsign encoded into the transmission
IO90 5-character Maidenhead Locator square, encoded into the transmission
37 Power in dBm, encoded into the transmission
And also:
The beacon function can also operate a CW or FSKCW (slow narrowband) beacon.
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Perhaps you have enabled the CW function of the beacon??

 

Thanks Stan and John. I think that's what I probably did; changed the mode from WSPR to CW by mistake during transmission. I'll try again once I am out in another park soon.?

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