[Elecraft] XG3 6M beacon W7RDP/B on the air

[Wayne Burdick]

I'll pass this onto the engineer who wrote the XG3 firmware (Paul  
Saffren). If we get enough demand we could add this.

Thanks,
Wayne
N6KR

On Jun 21, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Al Gulseth wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> After noting the mention of using WSJT to detect the beacon (and  
> since you
> obviously would like to "encourage" the use of XG3s in beacon  
> service) it
> occurred to me: what about QRSS mode? Assuming the hardware would  
> handle the
> long on/TX times associated with QRSS, it seems to me that all that  
> would be
> needed would be a firmware update to allow the slower QRSS CW speed.  
> (A
> number of QRPers I know are experimenting with QRSS, mostly on 30M,  
> and I
> suspect expanding the idea to other bands (e.g. 6M) might be of  
> interest to
> some of them.)
>
> TNX/73, Al
>
> On Tue June 21 2011 8:13:31 pm Wayne Burdick wrote:
>> How far are you from W7RDP?
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2011, at 6:10 PM, K7WIA wrote:
>>> I can detect the beacon using WSJT9, but I can not hear it in the
>>> speaker,
>>> The freg I have for zero beat in CW-REV is 50.02576.  and I should
>>> be close,
>>> calibrated w/ sprectran w/WWV
>>>
>>> I see a 20 second line on the waterfall every 60 seconds and have
>>> been for
>>> the last 15 minutes.
>>>
>>> my K3 does not have the PR6 preamp..  just using the one in the K3..
>>>
>>> Ed  K7WIA
>>>
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