[Lowfer] 30 Meter Watering Hole Friday Night

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/12/2010 10:09:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
we0h at gmx.com writes:

I just have the toroids to wind and solder on the board then mine is  
done. Been building my new transverter lately so the 30m beacon is off  
to the side of the bench.

AA6DY is always a very strong signal here  so either he is using a beam 
or higher power. Same with WA5DJJ. Not as fun  when people beacon with a 
too high of a ERP no matter how they achieve  it.

Mike
WE0H
 
 
Hi Mike,
 
Sounds like you are close to finishing your 30 meter QRP QRSS transmitter. 
 
I did email a report to AA6DY and got a nice reply. I looked up  his call 
on QRZ.com.
He is located in Highland Park, IL
I think a suburb of Chicago. His beacon runs 500 miliwatts to a dipole  
strung in some 
trees and he is using one of the arduino gizmos for a QRSS keyer.
 
He has a web page   
aa6dy.com    
and if you click on the link 'Ham Radio Ops' he has some pictures of his  
rig. 
 
Is 500 milliwatts considered high power for a 30 meter QRSS beacon? I am  
sure some
fellows are probably running much less.
 
To my way of thinking running a narrow FSK beacon in QRSS mode is wasteful  
of
band space. It will limit how many beacons can operate between  
10.140.000-10.140.100
if that is the band convention right now.
 
I couldn't find an email address yet for WA5DJJ. I see his signal every  
night here along with
 AA6DY.
 
73 - Todd WD4NGG