[Lowfer] QRSS Keying?

[Ralph W5JGV]

> I'm trying to get a Medfer beacon on the air. Wondering what people are
> using these days to transmit QRSS signals? I recall some people used
> PC's a few years ago, but don't recall the software.


Some years ago when I ran WC2XSR/13 on 166.5 KHz, I used the program CWTYPE
to generate an audio file of my CW and QRSS data for transmission.  Then I
burned it on a CD as a standard audio disk.  I played the audio CD on a
thrift-store CD player into a simple diode rectifier.  The DC from the
rectifier controlled a transistor which keyed the TX.  Cheap, simple, and
easily changeable.  Not as elegant as a programmed keyer chip, but much
faster to change and at about the same cost.

73,

Ralph  W5JGV - WD2XSH/7