{"id":1081,"date":"2009-03-13T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/g3zjo-qrss-wizard-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:49:30","slug":"g3zjo-qrss-wizard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/g3zjo-qrss-wizard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"G3ZJO:  QRSS WIZARD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/G3ZJO555GBeacon-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/G3ZJO555GBeacon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312546634375118610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Well, we&#8217;re the Knights, right? So we should have a few wizards. Eddie, G3ZJO, should certainly be among those so honored. Above you can see his &#8220;G Beacon&#8221; MEPT transmitter. He uses two 555 chips to generate the G letter in Morse code. The longer chip on the bottom is (I think) the RF part of the transmitter. Ingenious. I also like his selection of frequency: 10140073 Hz. FB.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie has a lot of other tricks up his sleeve, including the use of a Voltage Controlled Variable Oscillator driven by a PIC chip for a very simple WSPR transmitter.<\/p>\n<p>These and other inventions can be seen on Eddie&#8217;s YouTube page:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/g3zjo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/g3zjo<\/a> (most seem to be done without audio).<\/p>\n<p>Also check out his QRSS Beacon web page:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g3zjo.talktalk.net\/qrss.htm\">http:\/\/www.g3zjo.talktalk.net\/qrss.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Eddie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we&#8217;re the Knights, right? So we should have a few wizards. Eddie, G3ZJO, should certainly be among those so honored. Above you can see his &#8220;G Beacon&#8221; MEPT transmitter. He uses two 555 chips to generate the G letter in Morse code. The longer chip on the bottom is (I think) the RF part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/g3zjo-qrss-wizard-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;G3ZJO:  QRSS WIZARD!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qrss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}