Just found this...I'm the other station in the QSO...WE9V. Thanks for the contact and the video. Running Elecraft K3 and KPA500 at 500 watts, and 5 element yagi at 105 feet up. 73, Chad WE9V
Thanks for posting...I was just thinking we needed to get a MSK video up sooner or later. I was going to do one myself but with my station being 100w...the vid would have been A LOT longer. This is how a QSO should be good rocks, good ops, good stations. It's hard to find any info about anything new...I had to learn the hard way. For some reason hams are a little skeptical of the whole "internet fad" and that translates into no info or bad info. It took me several months of research and lurking on chat boards before I even started decoding (then FSK441) and then I had to start all over with MSK. My first QSO wasn't until a good month after that. Anyway thanks for posting hope to work you on the air!
Here it is 4 years later and I'm just now getting into the digital modes! Been running FT8 on 6 meters and having a blast. Working people on 6 when I don't hear a thing on phone. So I just ran across my first MSK144 signal on 6, a local about 15 miles away. I've worked meteor scatter the old way, by voice years ago, but was never very enthused by the mode. Going to monitor the local guy for awhile, think I know what to do but feel a little shy at the moment. Anyway, searching for MSK144 info and I came across this video. 73 de KD0GS.
I'm confused.. with the Frequencies.. 50.260... is the calling freq.. and the RX frequency you can set under the RX box... Why does my software continue to stay on 1500 on RX when I have set it to something else... like 1480 ? If I repeatedly call on 50.260 ? I am just not sure how this works... So I DON'T want to be on 50.260 ?
Great video. Thanks! How much power is required for a typical MSK144 QSO? I have a 5 element yagi at 66 feet (20 meters). But, I don't have an amplifier for 6 meters. Will 100 watts work?
I love 6 meters but I must say that did nothing for me.Very impersonal & boring to me.I'll stick with SSB & take my chances with whatever I get there. de W4KVW EM80
Hi Clayton i respect your opnion but on 6m there is several way to work any station even a DX one with this capability , specialy with very weak Es too . On many last summer (2016) Es DX season opening's into Europe was more guys in digi mode came from Europe than any on ssb and cw together . It's a important consideration i think.
@@VE2XK if I can’t work them on Phone then I will never work them.I don’t want any computer talking for me no matter who is in the other end.I much prefer making the contact myself and it’s not important to make any contact that required me doing it other than my way.It’s kind of like QSL Cards.I only use real paper and pen and envelope and no electronic QSL Cards EVER and no touch screen radios for me.I much prefer the Traditional way of doing things and I always do it just that way.👍🎙
If you can't appreciate the awesomeness of contacting another human far away by bouncing your radio signal off the split second ionization trail of a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere, I kinda feel sorry for you! :( This is incredible. I love this mode, and I just found it with this video. I'll take this over a boring rag chew on 20m which can be done on any day of the week. These are one of a kind contacts, every single time. That meteorite will never fall again. That trail lasts a split second.
Just found this...I'm the other station in the QSO...WE9V. Thanks for the contact and the video. Running Elecraft K3 and KPA500 at 500 watts, and 5 element yagi at 105 feet up. 73, Chad WE9V
Thanks for posting...I was just thinking we needed to get a MSK video up sooner or later. I was going to do one myself but with my station being 100w...the vid would have been A LOT longer. This is how a QSO should be good rocks, good ops, good stations. It's hard to find any info about anything new...I had to learn the hard way. For some reason hams are a little skeptical of the whole "internet fad" and that translates into no info or bad info. It took me several months of research and lurking on chat boards before I even started decoding (then FSK441) and then I had to start all over with MSK. My first QSO wasn't until a good month after that. Anyway thanks for posting hope to work you on the air!
Here it is 4 years later and I'm just now getting into the digital modes! Been running FT8 on 6 meters and having a blast. Working people on 6 when I don't hear a thing on phone. So I just ran across my first MSK144 signal on 6, a local about 15 miles away. I've worked meteor scatter the old way, by voice years ago, but was never very enthused by the mode. Going to monitor the local guy for awhile, think I know what to do but feel a little shy at the moment. Anyway, searching for MSK144 info and I came across this video. 73 de KD0GS.
I'm confused.. with the Frequencies.. 50.260... is the calling freq.. and the RX frequency you can set under the RX box... Why does my software continue to stay on 1500 on RX when I have set it to something else... like 1480 ? If I repeatedly call on 50.260 ? I am just not sure how this works... So I DON'T want to be on 50.260 ?
Great video. Thanks! How much power is required for a typical MSK144 QSO? I have a 5 element yagi at 66 feet (20 meters). But, I don't have an amplifier for 6 meters. Will 100 watts work?
100 w would be sure great Scott , more even better LOL I running 400-500 with the Elecraft KPA 500 inline .
got a link to where to get it
physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjt.html. ...Click on WSJT-X to the left of the page...
I love 6 meters but I must say that did nothing for me.Very impersonal & boring to me.I'll stick with SSB & take my chances with whatever I get there. de W4KVW EM80
Hi Clayton i respect your opnion but on 6m there is several way to work any station even a DX one with this capability , specialy with very weak Es too . On many last summer (2016) Es DX season opening's into Europe was more guys in digi mode came from Europe than any on ssb and cw together . It's a important consideration i think.
Good luck when only a band opening on ssb and cw.. Meteors run 24hrs a day and contacts are made without any enhancement.....
@@VE2XK if I can’t work them on Phone then I will never work them.I don’t want any computer talking for me no matter who is in the other end.I much prefer making the contact myself and it’s not important to make any contact that required me doing it other than my way.It’s kind of like QSL Cards.I only use real paper and pen and envelope and no electronic QSL Cards EVER and no touch screen radios for me.I much prefer the Traditional way of doing things and I always do it just that way.👍🎙
@@peanuttization not important it’s just a radio contact not life and death.😱🎙
If you can't appreciate the awesomeness of contacting another human far away by bouncing your radio signal off the split second ionization trail of a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere, I kinda feel sorry for you! :( This is incredible. I love this mode, and I just found it with this video. I'll take this over a boring rag chew on 20m which can be done on any day of the week. These are one of a kind contacts, every single time. That meteorite will never fall again. That trail lasts a split second.