Posted: 1/19/2011 6:58:54 PM EDT
|
I had a QSO on 40m PSK31 this evening with a Canadian station. Got an immediate eQSL confirmation card from him.
But I also got my first SWL eQSL confirmation card from a station in The Netherlands. ETA: How the hell do you SWL to a PSK31 QSO ??? ETA2: RX-PSK31 - A Windows PSK31 receiving program specially designed for SWL's 
|
|
Quoted:
You SWL it just like we do. You decode it. Just gotta feed the audio into the PC. I always associated SWL with a radio receiver, you know, like something to listen to the BBC News broadcasts and such. It never occurred to me that folks would hook 'em up to a computer to decode the warble-warble-warble PSK31 tones just to read what others are typing in a QSO. |
|
I got a SWL QSL card direct a few months ago. Also didn't know how to handle it. Googled and found out to handle it like any other two-way QSO except somewhere to note it's SWL.
Read somewhere that some countries require a certain number of confirmed SWL cards prior to applying for an operators license. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
You SWL it just like we do. You decode it. Just gotta feed the audio into the PC. I always associated SWL with a radio receiver, you know, like something to listen to the BBC News broadcasts and such. It never occurred to me that folks would hook 'em up to a computer to decode the warble-warble-warble PSK31 tones just to read what others are typing in a QSO. There are regular SWLs on the 80 meter nightly net I frequent. Sometimes they even send us emails 
|
|
Quoted:
SWL is what got me into Amateur Radio. I connected my Kenwood R-2000 last winter to my laptop and was able to decode PSK with FLDigi. I never sent out QSLs, but wanting to TX back was my primary motivator in becoming a ham. Some EU countries used to require (in the bad old days) a certain number of SWL QSL card responses before licensing. |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
SWL is what got me into Amateur Radio. I connected my Kenwood R-2000 last winter to my laptop and was able to decode PSK with FLDigi. I never sent out QSLs, but wanting to TX back was my primary motivator in becoming a ham. Some EU countries used to require (in the bad old days) a certain number of SWL QSL card responses before licensing. Yes, and I got a eQSL from Barbara in Poland due to this. I was in a PSK63 contact with a station in Ohio. We both sent her eQSL and real cards. Hope she got licensed. Before I was licensed as a ham I SWL'd with an Icom R75. I had made my own interface and used HRD to read the contacts. Yes, HRD / DM780 will work with the R75, too. And that really fascinated me... I was seeing people making contacts from all over the world... Germany, England, France, Italy, Israel, Spain, as well as all over North and South America. And they were doing it on just 20 - 25 watts. I was amazed. "When I become a ham I'm going to do this." And I did. 
|
