[FoxHunt] IARU Transmitter question

[Sam Smith]

Byon Garrabrant wrote:
> I'm making a change to PicCon's IARU mode, and have a question I need 
> answered ASAP.
> 

I can't answer that question, but I do have another suggestion. Last 
year for the US Champs I had to kludge a sort of VOX circuit for the 80 
meter transmitters. What is needed is a seperate key line and 
"transmitter on" line. The "transmitter on" signal would stay active for 
the whole minute, while the key line does it's thing. This would assist 
those of us using 80 meter crystal oscillators. If we let the oscillator 
run all the time, you can DF to the very low level signal from close 
range even when it's not transmitting.

What I did last year was use an RC circuit with a few seconds of time 
delay so that whenever the key line became active it would keep the 
oscillator on.

Sam N4MAP