[Lowfer] 30 Meter Watering Hole Friday Night

[Mike-WE0H]

I was thinking the same thing when I seen those 30m guys are running the 
  5hz FSK signal. I am going to set mine tighter if the hardware lets 
me. 5hz is too wide to cram even a dozen stations in a 100hz window.

I totally agree 500mw is way too much for a 30m beacon. Some are running 
way less. The FDIM beacon kits are designed for 100mw max. They are 
adjustable for lower than that.

Mike
WE0H




Todd-R wrote:
>  
> 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