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Nice pass today over the middle of the U.S. Got it recorded and transferred, and my wife even took some pictures and a short video of me doing it. I’ll link that in later, but for now, check out the weather! Addendum: Here’s me, recording the very audio that you see turned into a picture […]

It appears that WA5DJJ and I have chosen the same frequency space to operate in. Here’s the view from WA0UWH’s grabber: This is the problem with the growing popularity of QRSS: finding a lane on the information superhighway MEPT goat path.

Last night, I got home, made my wife some pork tenderloin with maple glaze, and then about 9:30 settled in with my laptop and started to think about what I should do about getting my QRSS software ready for release. I was pretty pleased with my “record” program: it had been steadily receiving and recording […]

I saw a bunch of spots of my WSPR beacon around 2:00AM local time, but I didn’t see a hint of his beacon anywhere. I did see VK2ZAY again: Early this morning, around 6:30AM, I was getting newcomer WA5DJJ, W8LIW, and NM5DV nicely… Scanning back, I found I had received WA5DJJ back yesterday, around 4:30…

I took Monday off, and mostly sat around the house with my wife. Still, I managed to get a couple of ham radio related activities done. I worked on removing all the compiled in constants from my program for doing unattended audio recording. Basically, my program uses “portaudio” to record audio with the rate, depth […]

David, WA5DJJ sent me the following screengrab. He collects the prize as the first (and clearest thusfar) report of my new SMT beacon. With some imagination, you might believe that you can see my signal here from W8LIW’s grabber. You can certainly see NM5DV’s signal booming in. Addendum: Oops. Had the wrong image linked at […]

M0AYF has a great bunch of information about QRSS operation. It’s really good stuff: filters, antennas, frequency standards, receivers, you name it! Very, very cool. Worthy of reading and constructing. Equipment used at M0AYF for QRSS.

I am currently running my 2w beacon with the following sequential multi-tone Hellschrieber ID on 30m: As Colin, G6AVK pointed out, this is likely to be a lot less effective than my previous MV identifier, but if it does work, people might have a better chance of knowing who the beacon actually is. I’ll let […]

Well, last night, I tweaked my recording program to produce recordings in 15 minute chunks and started it running. This morning, I had a bunch of recordings, a short run of which produced the following spectrograms (never tried this WordPress functionality before hope it works out!): Addedum: Sigh. WordPress insisted on converting my nifty names […]

Dan, NM5DV is now operating a 1w CW beacon on 30m from grid square DM75. His blog is here, and he’s doing a great job of writing about lots of his projects. Both of us also hang out of IRC on the irc.freenode.com network, in the #hamradio channel, and it seems like I’ll idly muse […]

This morning began like any other. I logged in, checked my email, and searched wsprnet.org for WSPR spots of my beacon, to see if any unusual callsigns have shown up overnight. I saw that ZL3IN managed to spot me overnight (I’ve gotten him a few times), but I also saw WA2YUN, reporting me from grid […]

In the past, I haven’t had much luck reaching Europe on 30m using WSPR, but today, to my shock, I saw these three spots of Italian ham IK4PMB show on wsprnet.org. Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az  2009-02-10 01:04   K6HX   10.140130   -19   0   CM87ux   2   IK4PMB   JN54mm   9716   31   2009-02-10 […]

I just got mail from David, VK6DI. He’s reported spots of my WSPR beacon a few times in the last few days, and I’ve been trying to see if his grabber shows my MEPT beacon (the MV”). He sent me an email today, with the following screen grab: Yep, that’s my beacon. Running an output […]

I’m up to spots from 33 states. AK KL7OA AL KU4PY, N4AU, W3PM, WA4KBD AR AZ CA K1CT, K6JEY, K6LRG, KC6STJ, KF6I, KX6E, N6HA, N6SPP, N6TTO, N7HD, NN6RF, W6SZ, WA6PZB, WB9GHD CO KD0BIK, N0LYI, N3DAK, W0AIR CT DE FL AB7JK, W3HH, W5NYC GA K4DD, K4MOG HI KH7HJ IA K0VM ID IL K3SIW, K9JKM, KA9LRZ, N9BPE, […]

Update: If you do a search for NOAA 19 on google, this blog post actually makes it to the front page. Some of you might be looking for information as to how you can listen for it. I use a Radio Shack Pro-60 scanner, tuned to 137.9125 Mhz, set in WFM mode, and my hand […]