[600MRG] WSQ help

[Roger Rehr W3SZ]

Here what I have seen has been mostly at tone = 2500 Hz with dial freq 
0.4742 MHz.  But I did see/work one station at tone = 1000 Hz.

You can monitor WSQ at the same time as the other modes.  I do this 
using a Hermes SDR with PowerSDR software as follows:

Dial freq 0.4742 kHz
One instance WSJTX for WSPR on radio slice 1
One instance WSJTX for JT9 on radio slice 2
WSQ German version for WSQ also on radio slice 2, with lowest tone set 
to 2500, waterfall limits set to 2400 and 2600 Hz (done in Setup).
If you use RTS (or DTR) for PTT for WSQ2 and CAT for WSJTX then you can 
switch back and forth between transmitting on WSQ and transmitting on 
JT9 without needing to reconfigure anything.  That is what I do here.

For this application I use Voicemeeter Banana as my virtual audio cable 
for output from slice 2 from PowerSDR instead of VAC, as this allows me 
to run up to 3 outputs. So I can do one output from PowerSDR to 
WSJTX-JT9, one to WSQ2 German version, and one to headphones.  I don't 
actually run one to headphones, because I am doing this remotely.  
Voicemeeter Banana ALSO allows one to send the audio over the network, 
and I send the receive audio from this slice over the Ethernet to my 
remote location to another instance of Voicemeeter Banana, which I use 
there to drive a pair of wireless headphones and another instance of 
WSQ.  The equivalent of multiple outputs from PowerSDR is also possible 
using VAC with its Audio Repeater facility, but this doesn't give you 
network audio.  I've been a VAC fan for many years and still am, but I 
really like Voicemeeter Banana for this application.

Once the sun sets, there is pretty frequent "sounding" and also calling 
CQ using WSQ by multiple stations that I copy here every night.  You 
will see messages containing their calls (in all upper case letters 
generally when they are sounding), followed by a colon and then often 
something like "cb".

By the way, the varicode used by WSQ means that sending LOWER CASE 
letters will take half the time as sending UPPERCASE letters. So its 
best to avoid upper case.  This is demonstrated here:
http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/SOFT/WSQ%20Varicode%20V3.png

73,

Roger Rehr
W3SZ

On 4/3/2018 1:44 PM, WM3M wrote:
>
> I have been monitoring 630 meters using WSQ, so far no luck.
>
> Is there a calling freq?  If so what is the dial freq?
>
> Is there a way to test receiving? possibly WSQ used on other bands?
>
> No tuner yet for 630, so only receiving so far.  WSPR monitoring has 
> worked fine in the past.
>
> I have very strong WSPR signal near me so it could be the problem too.
>
> Thank you  73
>
> Emory  WM3M
>
>
>
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