I have been so busy the last 48 hours I hadn't even time to check e-mail,
so with some delay my congrtas to Laurie & John for their fine achievement.
One refinement would be for the program (QRS) to leave out the gap when
there is a freq. transition, this would speed things up a bit . I will have
to talk to Rik ON7YD who wrote it.
I'll have a look at that. But in fact these gaps are just there to make
things a bit convenient (and to give the TX a break), in principle one
could do without it is the dotlength in known by the RX.
Since 'time is money' - even in QRSS mode - things go fastest if you just
leave out the gaps. An alternative would be to have small frequency jump
(much smaller than the dot-dash jump) for 2 succesive dots/dashes.
Eg : Assume 120 sec/dot and a 1Hz dot/dash shift. If Argo is set at 90 or
120 sec. one can easily see a 0.1Hz jump, so if 2 succesive dots or dashes
occur we would have a 0.1Hz jump. No chance to confuse it with the 1Hz
dot/dash jump.
But this assumes a rather flexible VFO (PLL), so the question is if the
efford is worth the advantage ?
What say ?
73, Rik ON7YD
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