brainwagon

I’ve changed my beacon to send “step morse” for a while. It will look like this (thanks to WA0UWH’s grabber):

It’s kind of wacky, but here’s the deal: there is a center line frequency which represents the space between characters. The message starts out at the centerline. Anything below the centerline represents a dit, above, a dah. If you send two dots or dashes in a row, it alternates between the two frequencies above or below, respectively. It dawns on me that when I change from dot to dash, it would be better to shift to the highest or lowest frequency, to enhance legibility. Hmm. I’ll tweak that later. But for now, if you see this, it’s me. Just changed it. The overall signal will be slightly wider now.

Addendum: Oops. Math error. The overall signal was twice as wide as I intended. Here’s what it’s currently sending, which should be the final version.