[Lowfer] Hans Summer "Ultimate QRSS" kit?

K2ORS k2ors at verizon.net
Tue Aug 13 21:39:34 EDT 2013


Thanks Laurence, good info!
73 Warren

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howell, Laurence J" <L.Howell at conocophillips.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Hans Summer "Ultimate QRSS" kit?


>
> Hi Warren I have one built (about 4 hours inc box bashing) and running 
> 400mW on HF WSPR/QRSS on HF and awaiting the new  470/137kHz filters for 
> the second one - Ill leave the filters outboard and will build them into a 
> switch box for easy switching between bands for the seond unit - its 
> pluggable filters for the first at the moment.
>
> The unit is GPS 1pps and NMEA  ref coded from my outboard G3RUH 10MHz GPS 
> locked clone and pretty dang clever for its size and lack of complexity 
> and Im sure a square wave can be extracted to drive a PA
>
> - I havent yet played with stability down at LF/MF at slow dot speeds. 
> There are a load of notes on DDS stability and how it can be 
> improved -which can be an issue as the daughterboard is running at 125MHz 
> and is kind of temp concious) but mine is fine at 10/14MHz with a 
> pennysitting atop the Xtal ref osc can.  You have to get used to pressing 
> 2 buttons in the right sequence for programming and Im still learning :-) 
> but after a while scrolling thru the set up get easier.
>
> Shipping comes in small packet and arrives in a few days from Japan - and 
> ordered frin  the Hans summers qrplabs web site.
>
> It also has a qrplabs yahoo web site where all the odd questions on 
> operation and revs' are loaded.
>
> I built this as a back up for the highly stable ZL1BPU DDS we all love :-)
>
> Im running V2.03 code at the moment
>
>
>
> Laurence KL 7 L  Palmer-Wasilla
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Warren K2ORS
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:37 AM
> To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands; 
> 600mrg at w7ekb.com
> Subject: [EXTERNAL][Lowfer] Hans Summer "Ultimate QRSS" kit?
>
>
> Just saw the following kit for 17.5 GBP, exciter that can transit
> anywhere from 500Hz to 40+MHz in QRSS, WSPR, DFCW, Hell and others. Has
> provisions for GPS locking:
> http://www.hanssummers.com/ultimate2.html#gps
>
> Anyone know about this?
>
>
> -- 
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>                 WD2XGJ
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>
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