[Lowfer] Software For A QRSS Beacon

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/13/2010 4:56:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
weazle at hurontel.on.ca writes:

Hi Todd, Lowfers,

The problem may be your choice of QRSS1 as the  speed.  The program's 
intended use was for beaconing on 
136 kHz. and  more recently 500 kHz. where QRSS30 is more the normal 
setting.  I've used  it here for several
years now on my LowFER Beacon, running in a 486 laptop  with Windows for 
Workgroups 3.0 non stop!

73, J.B., VE3EAR

LowFER  Beacon "EAR"
188.830 kHz. QRSS30
EN93dr
 
 
Hi JB,
 
Thanks for your info.
 
I may have jumped the gun on the usefulness of the ON7YD QRS program.
I can see now if someone was running a QRSS30 beacon or slower it  wouldn't
make much difference if there was up to a one-minute delay in repeating the 
 text.
 
With a speed I am more used to like QRSS3 or QRSS10 I was expecting  the 
program to repeat immediately after finishing the text instead of rounding  
up
to the next minute from the start time. At QRSS3  this could 
put a lengthy pause of time before repeating a 3-letter call if it didn't  
end just before an
even-minute block of time from the start.
 
It looks like Mike's work-around of adding just enough text so there will  
only be
a few seconds of time from finish before an even minute from start works  
well for a 
continuous-sounding beacon. I found you can add a little extra spacing  
between 
letters to fill in this time also.
 
I was just not aware of the repeat  function of the program rounding  off 
to the 
next minute only.
 
Thanks - 73 Todd