March 4th, 2009
Transmitting Around the World
One of my recent fascinations is QRSS, a super-low power mode of transmission over the airwaves. Picture this: get a ham radio setup which outputs dozens of watts of power, use a microcontroller to transmit data (frequency-shifting Morse code), use FFT on the receive end to view it on the computer, now increase the time between the "beeps" to tens of seconds and decrease the power to milliwatts and receive the signal thousands of miles away - that's QRSS! How cool! I want to try this badly... but I have to get back to lab - I have a thesis to write!
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--- title: Transmitting Around the World date: 2009-03-04 00:13:47 --- # Transmitting Around the World __One of my recent fascinations__ __is QRSS, a super-low power mode of transmission over the airwaves.__ Picture this: get a [ham radio setup](http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~ted/graphics/ham_radio_station.jpeg) which outputs dozens of watts of power, use a microcontroller to transmit data (frequency-shifting Morse code), use FFT on the receive end to view it on the computer, now increase the time between the "beeps" to tens of seconds and decrease the power to milliwatts and receive the signal thousands of miles away - that's QRSS! How cool! I want to try this badly... but I have to get back to lab - I have a thesis to write! <div class="text-center img-border">  </div>