QRSS beacons are low power, very low bandwidth beacons that can be used to learn more about propagation. This one is tuned to the 30m band around 10.140 Mhz, which is the "hot bed" of QRSS activity. It's created by running "bacon", a spectrum analyzer code that I wrote myself, running on my Macbook Pro from the output of my Yaesu FT-817, hooked to a simple 40m dipole. The software has no user interface at all: it merely reads the sound file, produces the spectrum dumps, and uploads them to my FTP server. What's cool: it only uses about 1% of my CPU.
Update: Sat Jan 14 12:22:53 PST 2012
K6HX beacon is operating on 10.140040 Mhz.
Grabber is down while beacon is operating.
I'd appreciate any reception reports.
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The KK7CC grabber, Las Vegas, NVWritten by Mark VandeWettering, K6HX