{"id":6574,"date":"2008-06-26T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/crossing-the-pond-on-200-milliwatts-qrss\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:15:18","slug":"crossing-the-pond-on-200-milliwatts-qrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/crossing-the-pond-on-200-milliwatts-qrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Pond on 200 milliwatts QRSS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>As you can probably tell, I was really pleased to get my little QRSS station in operation. But then came some icing on the cake: Vernon, VE1VDM, sent a screen shot (above) that showed the unmistakable traces of my somewhat chirpy signal. Look around 10140020 Hz . See those kind of droopy dashes? They’re mine! (Johan, ON5EX, called them “Italian tears.”) Hooray! Crossing the pond on 200 milliwatts!<\/p>\n

Of course, this is no big deal in the QRSS world. 200 milliwatts is decidedly QRO for these fellows. I feel some pressure to reduce power. I also feel the urge to clean up the chirp, but then again, the Italian tears make spotting the signal easier. <\/p>\n

For a great explanation of how QRSS allows you to pull signals out of the noise see ON7YD’s excellent article: http:\/\/www.qsl.net\/on7yd\/136narro.htm
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The online “grabbers” add a very interesting dimension to this. You can watch the band from stations around the world simultaneously. Take a look at I2NDT’s grabber compendium:
http:\/\/digilander.libero.it\/i2ndt\/grabber\/grabber-compendium.htm
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Here’s something else that I found really cool: I can watch the grabbers on my Blackberry! So, the other day, with my beacon on, as I made my way through central Rome on the 63 bus, I pulled out the Blackberry and opened ON5EX’s grabber page. There I could see my droopy dashes at 10140020. Now I’ve got my eye on the grabber of Laurence, 9V1LF, in Singapore; I hope to put some Italian tears on his screen soon.<\/p>\n

Guys, this real “essence of QRP” stuff. I’m reading Ade Weiss’s book on the history of QRP, and I often find myself thinking that The Old Man and the QRPers of yesteryear would very much approve of QRSS.<\/p>\n

It may seem complicated, but it is not. The transmit systems are just milliwatt crystal-controlled transmitters and some sort of keyer (mine is from K1EL). For receive, all you need is a cable from your receiver to your soundcard, and some free software.<\/p>\n

We need more QRSS activity from the States. When will AA1TJ put one of those Zener Diode rigs on 10140030?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you can probably tell, I was really pleased to get my little QRSS station in operation. But then came some icing on the cake: Vernon, VE1VDM, sent a screen shot (above) that showed the unmistakable traces of my somewhat chirpy signal. Look around 10140020 Hz . See those kind of droopy dashes? They’re mine! … Continue reading “Crossing the Pond on 200 milliwatts QRSS”<\/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":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qrss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574","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=6574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6576,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6574\/revisions\/6576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}