> Not to be preaching to the choir, and not that I'm disagreeing, but this > is a?very very?fine line to tread in that it borders on broadcasting. > During the Riley Hollingsworth days there were FCC actions against hams > who were hogging THEIR (in their opinion) frequency by doing the same > thing. I'm sure you all know the person or persons at fault. They were > being curmudgeonly just to be a-holes.
> Bill AD5OL To make that work, you would need two stations, each running in timed sequence so that one transmitter would come on frequency just as soon as the other one went off. But you would have to make sure your Radio Shack timers all worked properly :-) I use an automated CQ caller, made from a Sony minidisc player set to repeat mode. I use a tone on the left channel and the voice is recorded on the right channel. There is zero cross-talk with the minidisc; the minidisc seems to have perfect channel separation. The tone activates the T/R relay, kind of the way vox works on SSB. I can let it run over and over again for hours if I want. It will call CQ for about 90 seconds, then go to standby for 30 seconds, and keep on repeating until I take manual control of the station. I just put it on, then go to the bench and work on a project. I listen during standby periods for any calls and take manual control if I can hear someone come back. The CQ recording specifies that I have my receiver set to AM mode. Don k4kyv ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
