recorded at university of twente (netherlands) web sdr:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/2205z ros: pa3fwm, one hour ago has place the first offcial qso with ros, and it was received at this sdr. thank you
2205z pa3fwm: ah, i had seen your repeated advertisements for your experiment, so it's nice to know that it worked out!
2206z ros: it was a historical moment. it was on 7065 lsb
the first qso
18 february 2010, at 20:56 utc took place the first official qso with ros from vitoria (spain) to university of twente (netherlands) covering a distance of 1265 km. on 7.065 mhz. the first ham radio operator to get it was ea2le.
the first automatic reply
ros notification: eatest has received your radio message
********** please don’t reply to this email ********************
eatest has received your radio message sent at: 21:03 utc
received message: ‘cq cq cq de ea2le ea2le ea2le pse k my email is: <ea2le@ure.es> <ea2le@ure.es> <ea2le@ure.es>’
operator info:
callsign: eatest
name: jose alberto nieto ros
e-mail:
nietoros@hotmail.comqth: la aljorra-cartagena spain
locator: im97lq
station: web sdr
ros version: 1.6.1 beta
signal info:
symbol rate: 16 bauds
frame acquisition: 20/20
final acquisition: 15/16
frequency shift: -39,1 hz
symbol errors detected by viterbi: 2/50
metric: 0 db
vumeter level: -8 db
cpu usage: 20 %
download the ros beta software and give it a try, sounds cool.
http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/requires winrar or similar rar unzipper.
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country music icon johnny cash was a radio operator & morse code intercept operator for the us air force security service (usafss) while stationed in germany in the early 1950s. he had a "musical ear", meaning that he learnt morse code easily.
usafss karamursel newsletter sept 2007.
radioparadise.com
"who put the dit in dit-dah-dit-dah-dit-dah?"
a much needed ham tribute to barry mann's 60's parody song: 'who put the bomp?', by the viscounts & former members of the morton fraser harmonica gang.
"who put the bomp": lyrics by barry mann.
'canada' & 'mexico' were names assigned by the ss to areas of the death camps at auschwitz-birkenau. 'mexico' was for new inmates whilst 'canada' was for the dead and their belongings.
source: rudolf vrba, one of 2 jews to escape from auschwitz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rudolf_vrba
