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CSQ Summary

Matt Maguire published on 2013-03-12 included in Blog

CSQ Summary

The following is a proposal from Bruce Prior N7RR for a signal reporting system based on Copyability-Strength-Quality (CSQ) , and as an alternative to the traditional Readability-Strength-Tone (RST) system.

C or Copyability

Copyability	Description
N	no recoverable signal \(^{*}\)
0	discernable but not copyable \(^{*}\)
1-9	10% to 90% copy
G	Good 100% copy, but short of perfect
P	Perfect armchair 100% copy or full quieting on FM

\(^{*}\) For Copyability reports of N and 0, no Signal Strength or Quality reports are needed.

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Operating Portable from Long Reef

Matt Maguire published on 2012-10-02 included in Blog

Having had my Elecraft KX3 ultra-portable radio for a few months now, I felt it was high time to take it out into the field. In particular I was curious to see how it would perform with my Alexloop magnetic loop antenna. This antenna covers 40m-10m, and while it clearly isn’t going to compete against a dipole, it is very quick and easy to set up, and should normally give reasonable performance on the higher bands at least.