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Subject: Re: LF: VO1NA Ebnaut recently decodes
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Hello Joe,

Am 14.02.2019 18:41, schrieb jcraig@mun.ca:
> Greetings Stefan and congrats on your remarkable work on ELF.
Thank you. A 100 character message is running since 12 UTC. It will take 
almost 4 days to pass it over. The longest message (in hours, not in 
characters) ever sent in EbNaut, if i remember correctly :-)
> I am still thinking about the guard rail for VLF.  It is 10km+ from the
> shack so any operation will have to be mobile
Hm maybe you can send me the most accurate locator of your shack, like 
Dimitris did with his house? It would be interesting to see your 
location. Hay, we know each other since almost 10 years now but don't 
know very much actually ;-) I remember our DFCW-3 QSO on 137.7 kHz at 
night, some years ago.

> EbNaut LF TX: The signal is taken from the time pulse output of the 
> NEO7 board
> which has a LED and dropping resistor across it. Paul has written
> code to control the frequency, duty cycle etc with a Raspi.  Very handy.
Yes, i'm using his tools too. Setting the time pulse works well but 
setting a frequency does not, somehow. Am i making a stupid mistake or 
does it have to do with the serial interface /dev/ttyAMA0 on a Raspi2B 
(unlikely) or is my module missing something. Oh no, i remember i 
successfully set a frequency output with the u-center software.
Need to try Markus' fresh developed tool for Windows, just to check if 
it works.

I would like to use a Raspi and Ebkey (using a XOR gate for the PSK) to 
run an EbNaut message from a Raspi. With just 5 W TX power (the 
classical QRP power level) i could pass a message over to Paul, when 
TXing at night, from a small battery. That would be a great test that 
could be done quite often and i don't need to have my car there and big 
batteries. What a fun!

> This goes directly to a TTL XOR and then a TC4426 driver thence a
> class E 100w TX or the Decca.  If you have any questions, I'll be happy
> to help.  This system is very simple.
Thanks Joe, I'll come back later to you. I'll try again and then pass 
the command lines into this email, just for your confirmation.
73, Stefan