Hello all:
I will be travelling to Sable island as part of the CY0X group in late
June. We will be QRV on 6 and 2 meters. One of the objectives of the 2 meter
station is to explore and tropo or sporadic E paths across the North Atlantic
to EU.
The 2 meter station will have a KW and an antenna of at least 14.4 dbd
gain. The radio will be an FT987D (with preamp). We would like to have a cw
beacon on the air as much as possible.
I would like to synch the cw transmissions with a clock (e.g., transmit
the first half of each minute, listen the last half, transmit the first and
third 15 secs, listen the 2d and 4th, etc.). To do this I will have to bring a
laptop and synch it to a time source, which I believe I can do with
Dimension4. I don't know how often we can access the internet, but expect it
will be at
least once a day.
Here are my questions:
1. What cw program is recommended for use with an FT-897D in this
fashion? Can this cw program be set up in a beacon mode, linked to the
computer
clock, to transmit in a given time sequence?
2. What connection(s) must be made to the FT-897D to accomplish this?
( I am assuming that the 897 ptt output can be used to trigger the
amp/preamp.)
Anyone with experience doing something similar to this ccan contact me
directly.
Thanks and 73. Chris W3CMP
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