{"id":8230,"date":"2008-06-24T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/qrss-success-signals-visible-in-online-grabbers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:16:02","slug":"qrss-success-signals-visible-in-online-grabbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/qrss-success-signals-visible-in-online-grabbers\/","title":{"rendered":"QRSS Success — Signals Visible in Online Grabbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shortly after recording SolderSmoke<\/span> 86 (in which I shared my tale of QRSS<\/span> woe), I solved my calibration problem. IK<\/span>3NWX<\/span> has a CW beacon on 10141800 Hz. I fired up the Spectran<\/span> soundcard<\/span> program, and put the output of my Drake 2-B into the line in connector. With the 2B’s bandpass wide, I tuned NWX’s<\/span> beacon to the top of the display. I then adjusted the trimmer cap on my oscillator to put me 1750 Hz below NWX<\/span>. Eccolo<\/span>! That put me in the 100Hz wide QRSS<\/span> band. Almost immediately I could “see myself” on some of the on-line “grabbers.” Vic, G3GKI<\/span>, sent a screen shot (above) You can see some chirp on my signal. I might fix that, but I might leave it as is to make the signal more easily recognizable.<\/p>\n

Eddie, G3ZJO<\/span>, also sent a screen shot. I think this one is from an online grabber located in Northern Italy. You can see Eddie’s far more sophisticated signal higher up in the display. My more rudimentary effort appears below. You can make out my call.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The online grabbers are a real hoot. My favorite is that of Johan, ON5EX. Check it out and see if you can see my 200 milliwatts<\/span> reaching out across Europe. look for me around 10140020. Johan’s page updates every minute or so:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.on5ex.be\/grabber\/grabber.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after recording SolderSmoke 86 (in which I shared my tale of QRSS woe), I solved my calibration problem. IK3NWX has a CW beacon on 10141800 Hz. I fired up the Spectran soundcard program, and put the output of my Drake 2-B into the line in connector. With the 2B’s bandpass wide, I tuned NWX’s … Continue reading “QRSS Success — Signals Visible in Online Grabbers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8230","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\/8230","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=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}