Hi,

I am new to this group, I joined recently after searching the web for
stuff and finding the website of G4OEP ( Dr. Andrew Smith ).

I am a licensed amateur since a couple of years, I am quite into
building HW and experimenting things I find this whole idea of QRSS
very intriguing and fascinating.

To make it short "I'd love to try it too", I really want to see how
this "very low power long distance transmission" works it sounds very
interesting.

I studied a little bit around there and there, so basically is some
slow FSK modulation ( or just CW ) done using a very stable frequency
transmitter usually made with some heated quartz.

Sounds nice, so what kind of suggestions/hints would you give to a
neophite that would like to experiment with this ?

Currently my rig is a G5RV aerial and I have a FT-840 receiver plus a
Softrock radio I recently built, it seems anyway you need some
dedicated receiver if you wish to receive this kind of stuff ?

I suppose I could/should start doing a bit of practice in receiving
this stuff before to try to build a transmitter and start to try
something myself, do you think it's a good idea ?

How does it work that thing ? Do you have a transmitter that
constantly transmits something in some frequency and people tries to
pick it up and/or you transmit "only for a while at certain times"
and people try to get you up ?

Any help appreciated, I think this idea is very interesting.

Thanks in advance,

Ivan Z.