Put yer hands on the radio now...

[cid]

An event of major geekitude at the radio station tonite...finally bagged that last contact for JT65 WAS!!!
JT65 is a computer communications mode developed by Joe Taylor K1JT, an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."

In addition, he wrote several computer programs and communications protocols, including WSJT ("Weak Signal/Joe Taylor"), a software package and protocol suite that utilizes computer-generated messages in conjunction with radio transceivers to communicate over long distances with other amateur radio operators. WSJT is useful for passing short messages via non-traditional radio communications methods, such as moonbounce and meteor scatter and other low signal-to-noise ratio paths. It is also useful for extremely long-distance contacts using very low power transmissions.

I've been crankin' on these modes for several years on and off now.
Finally bagged K3MQ in Delaware for the last contact for WAS (Worked All States). At least one confirmed contact in each of the 50 states under a certain category (a particular mode, a specific frequency band, a power limit, stuff like that). Doesn't sound like much, but hey, it's a geek thing.
The station manager is filing the electro-paperwork for all this tomorrow. Once we get the pretty certificate to hang on the wall, I'll get a pic of it and post it here.

Like I said, it's a geek thing. I revel in and we celebrate our electrogeekitude!!!!!

[Sigma_Orionis]

So! Bouncing on the Moon Huh?

Extremely Cool

[cid]

We have some more tower/antenna work to complete, along with the az/el controllers and a linear power amplifier for the radio,
but yes, we are working on getting things together out here to bounce our radio signals off the moon, using K1JT's software
for signal coding/decoding.

The day we can do that, you'll hear me hollering without benefit of radios...

[geonuc]

Sounds like an episode of the Big Bang Theory.

[cid]

Don't you EVEN regard me as a Sheldon Cooper...

...I will find you...



...'nuff said...

[SciFiFisher]

Don't you EVEN regard me as a Sheldon Cooper...

...I will find you...



...'nuff said...

I was thinking you might be more like Leonard.

[cid]

Don't you EVEN regard me as a Sheldon Cooper...

...I will find you...



...'nuff said...

I was thinking you might be more like Leonard.

Leonard I can tolerate -- if he was real, I might even find him being a good friend eventually.

Sheldon, that waste of valuable plant space, on the other hand...

[geonuc]

Don't you EVEN regard me as a Sheldon Cooper...

...I will find you...



...'nuff said...

Heh. There was an episode of BBT where the boys bounced a laser off the moon using equipment they hauled to the top of their apartment building.

I'm thinking you're more like Howard, but less Jewish.

[cid]

1 -- I saw that episode.

2 -- if you ever compare me to Howard again, you will find a dirty sock in your lunch the next day...

[Loresinger]

so that's where socks go...................