[Lowfer] OPERA Legal in USA

[JJ]

I transmitted OPERA today too but with my Flex 1500.  Slick how it 
recognized the SDR.  Only did it for a short time on 20m.

I also got the QRSS transmit program to key the 1500 too.  Took a little 
messing around with the virtual comm ports but it all worked out.  My 
1500 is MARS modded so I get RF just about anywhere.  I was thinking of 
taking the transverter output of 1mw and using that on the Hifer band.  
I can even get RF out to LF.

Jon WS1K

On 2/3/2012 4:48 PM, Dick Goodman 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
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