[Elecraft] Calling CQ on PSK-31

[Julian, G4ILO]

Phil Hystad-3 wrote:
> 
> On May 11, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Jon Perelstein wrote:
> 
>> Just because I can see it on the waterfall doesn't mean that I have any
>> idea if it's a CQ or not.  And if it's a short CQ, by the time I click
>> over to it, it's gone.
> 
> Which is a good reason to buy an Apple Mac and help to increase my AAPL
> stock value even more...
> 
> The CocoaModem digital interface application that runs only on the Mac has
> a very nifty feature.  Even if a waterfall trace of a message is over, as
> long as it is in the displayed buffer you can click on it and see the text
> of that stream for the amount of the buffer contents that is retained.
> 

The built in PSK31 modem in KComm for Windows can do that as well. (Actually
it is a feature of the PSK31 DLL by AE4JY and not anything clever I did.)

KComm also has a "PSK Browser" that decodes all the signals in the passband
(and reports them to PSK Reporter if you want to do that.)

Of course that doesn't help get other people answer *your* CQs. Perhaps an
increasing use of PSK Browsers means that people don't tend to bother with
weak stations that aren't DX? Adding "QRP" (but please not "/QRP") to your
CQ calls might help a bit.

I ran just 4W of PSK31 and an attic antenna for many years with my QRP K2
with quite a bit of success. But there were more sunspots around at the
time. I admit that frustration with conditions over the last couple of years
was why I got the 100W PA for my K3 (not being able to do anything about the
antennas.) It made a heck of a difference to my success rate. No problem
getting replies to my CQs now.

If you must run QRP then as others have suggested, replying to other
people's CQs is really the way to go.

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