[Lowfer] OPERA Legal in USA

[Douglas D. Williams]

That's amazing. Pretty soon we will have DXCC on any band that we can erect
a 30' dipole.....all without ever having to actually be present in our
"shack".

Progress?  Not for me to judge.

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.

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Doug - KB4OER


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Dick Goodman <wa3usg at verizon.net> wrote:

>        I loaded OPERA for the first time yesterday to copy Bob WE2XGR/6 ...
> which worked great.  Then this morning I looked at the program more
> closely.
> I was using it with my SDR/IQ to copy Bob but saw it was being used to
> actually make QSO's on all of the HF bands. I have a Flex-5000 and
> installed
> OPERA on that machine. It runs with the Flex just great. It keys the
> transmitter, talks to the Virtual Comm Ports, and completely controls the
> Flex in frequency. On 14.065 Mhz this morning, I started copying a lot of
> Europeans with it. I got brave and hit the "TX" button. The Flex went into
> the transmit mode and about 2 minutes later about 7 stations who copied me,
> all DX,  scrolled down the screen. I was running a power of 5 watts to an
> Inverted Vee.
>        I put it into the "Auto QSO" mode and within an hour, I had 30 DX
> QSO's automatically logged complete with real signal reports both ways. I
> sat with it so it was not unattended!! I'm sure that this will be quite
> controversial but is sure was fun!
>
> 73
> Dick, WA3USG
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
> lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Dexter McIntyre W4DEX
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:44 PM
> To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] OPERA Legal in USA
>
> OPERA needs a CW ID option with a selectable timer.
>
> Dex
>
> Bob Raide wrote:
> > As far as I know yes. OPERA was really designed for 137-500 kHz as a
> > program to fit the high noise low freq bands but most of the OPERA
> > users are on HF and just a few of us on the LW bands. It seems to be
> > very popular in Europe however, as it was developed by a ham in
> > Spain-I am thinking the Europeans now have a European program that
> > works and they use it allot. Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: wa3usg at verizon.net
> >> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> >> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:34:42 -0500
> >> Subject: [Lowfer] OPERA Legal in USA
> >>
> >> I don't want to sound really super dumb but is OPERA legal to
> >> transmit on the HF bands in the United States .... I hope so!
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Dick, WA3USG
> >>
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