{"id":3675,"date":"2008-06-20T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/jason-the-argonauts-and-qrp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:53:17","slug":"jason-the-argonauts-and-qrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/jason-the-argonauts-and-qrp\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason, the Argonauts, and QRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgIc4pKUmo8nH-VEcj-BlVWkELaWmEDFd5sm6Tt_dqlmR0QYEnGZ6eoXtbOmv644jS9Oz1orfN-lncY-M9nntqxfhMDs81L9DWnPXbtkybSbBuDOs_Da0kMlKxFZ2aHZJnidXwLCoqy-qA\/s1600-h\/ARGOaniship.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ARGOaniship.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213821884771048658\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">You don&#8217;t often find beauty in software read-me files, but I found some in those of I2PHD and IK2CZL. Take a look at this. It is from the read-me file for a Slow Speed CW program:<\/span><br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ARGO -- A QRSS Viewer by I2PHD & IK2CZL<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Argo is program for viewing QRSS signals, i.e. very<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">slow CW, or DFCW signals, i.e. slow CW where dots and<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">dashes are of the same length, but offset in frequency<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">by a few Hertz, or even a fraction of an Hertz.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The name Argo is taken from that mythical ship which,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">with the Argonauts on board, headed to Colchis,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">in the quest for the Golden Fleece, much like the LF<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hams are in search of that fraction of dB of S\/N which<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">will allow them to make that elusive QSO.<\/span><br \/><br \/>--------------------------<br \/><br \/>Here is where you can get the Argo software.<br \/>Free! And lots of other good programs<br \/>(check out Spectran):<br \/><\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaksignals.com\/\">http:\/\/www.weaksignals.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bravo Alberto! Grazie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t often find beauty in software read-me files, but I found some in those of I2PHD and IK2CZL. Take a look at this. It is from the read-me file for a Slow Speed CW program:&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- ARGO &#8212; A QRSS Viewer by I2PHD &#038; IK2CZLArgo is program for viewing QRSS signals, i.e. veryslow CW, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/20\/jason-the-argonauts-and-qrp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jason, the Argonauts, and QRP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-qrss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}