[Fourlanders] Anyone Doing Anything Interesting with Ham Radio?

[Rogers, Ron]

Sounds good, Brian !!

Scott and I set up the K1EL keyer function in Writelog to use the Navigator interface as the USB interface to control the PTT and CW lines  


Ron
WW8RR


-----Original Message-----
From: fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Brian McCarthy
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 8:53 AM
To: Fourlanders
Subject: [Fourlanders] Anyone Doing Anything Interesting with Ham Radio?

Just over a week ago, I finished building and initial testing of a K1EL WKUSB CW keyer. It is supported directly in Writelog, and has PTT out. Turning the speed knob on the front changes the Writelog CW speed as well as the keyer speed. This is intended to replace my old tired MFJ Grandmaster keyer. I will be testing it with the full 222 station, maybe over the Thanksgiving holiday. I am expecting that it will no longer be needed to push the footswitch or other PTT to make keyer generated CW to actually transmit on the 222 station with this new piece.

Sadly, I will not be pursuing the "Completely Over Engineered CW Keyer" that we joked about during the September contest. It would have been fun, but I probably would not have completed it.

I also exchanged a bit of email with the writer of CW-Skimmer. I believe he will be including transverter support in the next release.
I have been playing with CW-Skimmer Server connected to a 222 transverter and the 144/222 pair of loops. If the transverter offset can be implemented, feeding spots back into the Reverse Beacon Network becomes reasonable.

Anyone else?

Cheers,
Brian
NX9O
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