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Re: QRPGuys DSB Digital Transceiver


 

I second the notion. Build it, use it and see what it does.

I built the kit and put it on the air and worked almost 30 Qs with
it. I am not a fan of the mode after the fact. You just point
and click and get a simple exchange. For $40, you do get something
that does work.

You guys remember the pixie? Did you get it to work as well?

And, going back to the QRPGuys kit. I never received a follow up
email saying I was causing problems by being on the air.

I have, in the last five weeks pulled a Brian May, of Queen fame,
by doing over 4,000 lines of C code and two books with more in
the queue and gone back to doing physics. I have downsized the lab.
I spent 26 years doing QRP stuff and it's time for me to devote time to doing physics seriously again. I've a bunch of papers to publish
that I have done over the past 20 years.

The EMRFD group has gone. It is time for this group to also come
to and end.

I do not want this group to turn into a bashing group. Too many people
have their own agenda.

This group is coming to its end of life. At the end of the year I will
disable all posting, but the material files and messages will remain
intact for the duration of the life of groups.io as long as we are not
charged for the use of the space. Greed seems to be kicking in on
the Internet and every one wants to make money.

Feel free to start a qrp group with another name and announce it here.
I will not release control of the group as I did with qrp-l. I don't
want any attacks made on me for this decision. I am in control.
I control the vertical. I control the horizontal.

Hopefully the run was worth the humongous amount of time and energy
I spent on projects and trying to stimulate the group. I kept the
20m 5W xcvr and will be on 20m trying for DXCC before I go deaf. :-)
It's the last thing on my bucket list for ham radio.

ciao,

chuck, k7qo

On 11/3/19 11:42 PM, JT Croteau wrote:
LOL at Randy's post.
QRPGuys aren't the only ones out there with a DSB FT8 kit. People need to
get over all of this. It isn't meant to be a serious radio, it could be
very fun to play with like others tinkering around with DSB voice circuits.
Mine is on the bench and I will use it.
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019, 17:31 jim via Groups.Io <ab7vf@...>
wrote:

Sad ... Still when I just looked, this is being sold to be ran under
'computer-control' by the "wsjt-x" program ... Not exactly rag-chew modes
....purchased a similar device (from hans summers) called "QRSS-WSPR" to do
some antenna propagation messing around ...No received it yet, but ...Don't
bag it, use it for what it was intended ..

disclaimer: I have NOT been following this thread with any active
interest ...Lotsa experts out there tho (as usual)

Jim

On Sunday, November 3, 2019, 10:47:18 PM UTC, Randy.AB9GO <
randy.ab9go@...> wrote:

With all the controversy surrounding this kit I am sorry I even purchased
it. It's sitting here waiting to be assembled. I suppose I'll throw the PCB
boards away and keep the parts for future projects. With so many problems
surrounding dsb (other than simplicity) I cannot understand why the qrpguys
put this kit out. In retrospect I would have paid extra just to have a
proper SSB signal after reading all the comments in this thread.

Randy AB9GO





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