[Lowfer] KA7OEI on 2200m in EN90

[Clint Turner]

Hello Paul,

I look forward to your being QRV on the LF/MF bands.   I'm pretty 
confident that a more "extreme" mode like QRSS30 would span the 
continent even under less-than-idea conditions - but QRSS10 (or QRSS3) 
should be do-able on a more typical, deep-winter evening/night.

I've been switching over to 630 during some of the local evenings (about 
0100-0500Z) to both WSPR and monitor for JT-9 contacts, but I try to be 
on 2200 meters the rest of the time.  I have the Morse ID in the WSPR 
program configured to ID every 4 minutes so about half of the WSPR 
transmissions will end with my callsign at about 20WPM at a few seconds 
before the top of the even minute.

Over the past couple of days there has been some freezing fog that keeps 
knocking my antenna system out of tune so there are hours at a time that 
my signal will be poor before I notice this and given the entire antenna 
system a shake and readjust the variometer.

At present I'm using a computer and FT-817 to produce the transmit 
signals, but I expect a QRP Labs U3S to arrive in the next week or three 
and this will be GPS-locked and dedicated to 630 and 2200 meters.  At 
some point I hope to configure it to automatically switch between the 
two bands - but that will be some time down the road.

73,
Clint
KA7OEI

P.S.  I believe that I may have worked you many years ago (maybe 1990) 
on 2m SSB or CW when I lived in FN10:  IIRC you were running a pair of 
4CX250s at nearly 1kW TPO - if that *was* you!

On 12/12/2017 6:53 AM, N1BUG wrote:
> I haven't heard you on WSPR yet but slow enough QRSS might have a 
> chance. I'm working around the clock to get up and running! I hope to 
> be QRV in a week or so with around 0.1W EIRP. I will be able to do 
> QRSS I think, as some time delay to change message in the U3S 
> shouldn't kill a QSO attempt. ;-) Other QSO modes to follow when I get 
> a transmit converter built.
>
> 73,
> Paul N1BUG FN55mf (Maine)
>
>
> On 12/10/2017 06:36 PM, Clint Turner wrote:
>> I suppose that I'll have to arrange a QSO with someone - using JT9, QRSS
>> or some other suggested mode so that I can claim that I've had at least
>> one QSO on the band - and to give the other station Utah.  Any takers?
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Clint
>>
>> KA7OEI
>