Here's my first ever PSK-31 qso, in all it's glory. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CQ CQ CQ de W7XT W7XT W7XT CQ CQ CQ de W7XT W7XT W7XT pse K <> W7XT W7XT W7XT DE W0JRM W0JRM W0JRM KN <> (uncopyable) you a report next ro i. y name is Dick Dick And QTH is Missoula MT Missoula MT BTU w0j” de 77xt i o e <> W7XT DE W0JRM ge dick, name hr is rob rob qth is Plano, IA. ur abt 599 hr..... this is my 1st psk-31 contatct, so still not 100% sure I'm doing this correctly, hi hi. BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> w0jrm de w7xt Well Rob, you are doing fine. I'm having a little troeble here because I discovered I have a bug in one of my macros. Have to do some things by hand hi hi. ur rst is 579 to 589 Rob. A good strong signal and 100 percent copy, or "print" as we say on PSK. I'm actually quite new to the mode too, only been on about 3 weeks. >>BTU Rob W0JRM de W7XT K <> W7XT DE W0JRM -- Fb Dick, 100% copy here also. I installed Hamscope 1.51 about a week ago, and have been monitoring on and off to try and get a hang of what I should be doing. Have programed a few macros, here's one of them hi hi Rig hr is a KWD TS-820S going to a dipole on 20/15/10, an inverted vee on 40m, and a 110 foot wire on 80. PC is a Homebrew 200MHZ K-6 with 128 Megs Ram. Software is Hamscope version 1.51 BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> w0jrm de w7xt OK Rob. Not much of that. I think another signal has moved right on top of us. Lets QSY down 200 Hz Down 200 Hz. I will move down and call you and you can find me on your display OK?? >>BTU Rob W0JRM de W7XT K a et o <> W7XT DE W0JRM - - qsl dick - de w0jrm qsy down 200Hz <> w0jrm de w7xt a,=Ļ oope hVRob?? BK <> BK - qsl dick - I found you, hi hi. Getting some SSB QRM in here now though. How copy? BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> w0jrm de w7xt OK Rob. Well, I think the problem is not QRM, but something in your setup. When you first begin to transmit your signal is clean and copy is solid, but then it becomes garbled. When you sign it is clean agatn. You are definitely overdriving your transmittert6ith ytur udio and × maa be ge ting some in to a our soundcard. Let's try trurning down your audio drive first . Turn it down a bit before you come back. Then when you do ceme back give me about 5 seconds of un (odu eated signal so I*an get n IMD reading. OK? >>BTU Rob W0JRM de W7XT K <> W7XT DE W0JRM QSL Dick... How does this sound? I have a VERY old sound card, and the volume control is VIA a potentiometer on the back of the card, hi hi! I turned the mike gaind down a bit... I have the 820 in the MONI position, and I can hear that the audio is much quiter... I'm hoping this will cure the problem as it is a real pain to get behind the computer! BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> w0jrm de w7xt RR Much better Rob 99.5 percent copy hat tl MetfoS think you should give me an unmodulated signal--i.e., don't type anything--for 5 or 6 seconds so I can get an IMD rBding for you. Le Ir ry that now >>BTO Rob W0JRM de W7XT K <> W7XT DE W0JRM qsl.... here goes how was that Dick? BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> OK, ?ob. ¦ll et t ÅD reiis i on giit le 7 f i, obut it is too hi , aut t e .1g dv <> W7XT DE W0JRM -- No copy Dick, the foreign SSB was coming in strong that time. Want to give it another shot? BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> 300 Hz down 30veeHz de= e w“Nt k <> W7XT DE W0JRM qsl... down 300 hz de w0jrm qsy <> dxt eopa here Roob?? <> r W7XT DE W0JRM qsl dick... copy about 50% now, but think I'll be able to play around with the IF filter to get rid of most of the QRM BTU W7XT DE W0JRM KN <> w0jrm de w7xt oK Rob. Well your signalis good now. Theta was a PsoPactor station right on top of us. I have suddenlXe. e oped high SWR, so am going to have to QRT and fix it. 73 Rob a tnx ftr QuO, sorry I have to run. Snow may have knocked down my antenna. Good luck .ob, 73!żope to0eeou agaii on PSK-3 SK H0p om te W7yT titdi ...ne exR oO ot i-nort o mo <> W7XT DE W0JRM QSL Dick, thanks for the patience and my first PSK-31 QSO. Will get you a QSL card in the mail tomorrow afternoon. 73 es hope to work you again! 73 W7XT DE W0JRM sk sk! <>