On 9/9/2010 9:45 PM, Stefan Schäfer wrote:
OK, but most people are just transmitting beacon
signals! I would not
even have the time to do a real QSO
Yes, this is the whole point. IMHO QSOs are for rag chewers. More
technically inclined OMs prefer to use beacons, as they
serve the real purpose of being a radioamateur, which is NOT to do
QSOs : "ur sig 599 tnx fer qso hpe cuagn"
That is simply a waste of the radio spectrum. The ultimate goal of
the radioamateur is to perform experiments to increase the
level of individual knowledge. For this reason beacons are very
useful, and if it takes 10 hours to decode an ID, scavenging
into the noise down to sub-millihertz resolution, so be it. This is
the reason why to have QRSS600 and beyond.
The only danger to this is that some rag chewer starts an useless
QSO near the beacon, causing QRM....
73 Alberto I2PHD
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