[Lowfer] beacon

Sat, 2 Nov 2002 02:07:20 -0600

I hear YA there. I tested the v.2 software tonight and came up with the same
results as you. I did have my frequency change as it should for a while and
then it went back to 158kc. I don't think that I should sell this thing, as
it might be a piece of crap. I would hate to sell it and then later have it
crap out on Vern. I'll leave it up to him if he really wants it or not. The
signal sounded like it had a ton of sidebands on my Sangean. It probably
would be fine with an output filter on it to clean things up. The card
itself when not being keyed down puts out a bunch of weird signals all over
the LF spectrum. It is no wonder that Mike S had such a weird looking
signal. I normally use an Epson based exciter and it is super stable and
always works. I checked out arrow.com tonight to see how much the shipped
price on those TDA7052AN amps would be. It costs 17 bucks alone for shipping
a 1-dollar part. It said that each additional line item was 7 bucks. They
can keep them as far as I am concerned. Oh well, time for sleep.
73's,
Mike>WE0H
http://www.we0h.us/lf.html

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Steven Brooks
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 1:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Lowfer] beacon

Hey Mike,

I tried that 2nd edition driver.  It added the QRSS feature, as dot
length seconds but it does not work correctly.  I set it for 24, the
upper limit, and it output a dash that was 45 seconds, and only 3
second dots.  No matter what value I gave it, it only varied the dash
lengths, the dots remain at 3 seconds.  This is what it does on the
original version.

Sorry the hear about your final, and disgust with the product.  It
seems to work really good for local CW beaconing, but fails on QRSS
lengths past 5 second dots.

Back to the trusty "All in One".

Steven

BZS  189.900kHz  QRSS30