Unless you are looking for nanosecond accuracy, just use the beacon
generator built into the rig!!!! Internal timing is excellent. Just
watch whatever clock you got when starting the beacon...
RTFM!!!
Save the compooter for logging and other stuff...
Eric
KB7DQH
> 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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