Hi.
I just set up a MEPT with WSPR, PowerSDR, a SoftRock RXTX Ensemble and a 40m delta-loop.
Power must be lower than 500mW but hard to measure for now.
I hope to turn the MEPT on during the following nights but I still have some details to sort out.

73,
Yan - XV4TUJ.
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Yannick DEVOS - XV4TUJ
http://capheda.wordpress.com/ (Blog in french)
http://www.qsl.net/xv4tuj/ (web page in english)

Finished my SDR Lite II last saturday for 30m. Last night I started VAC + Rocky + WSPR to see
if any good. And yes it works :-)

Slightly off frequency, but have no decent time marker available to adjust the single band setting
in Rocky. But hey it's good enough tot start with.

Antenna is a simple dipole, parallel fed with a Diamond W735. The W735 is now a 4-bander (80/40/30/20), just 2
meter above ground.

73 ON3JT

Sorry! My english is not so good if I want to write someone, then please in german! Thank you!
Sorry! Mein englisch ist leider nicht so gut, wenn mir jemand schreiben möchte, dann bitte in deutsch! Danke!

Tried WSPR for the first time today had so issues with the software but seems to be somewhat ok now. Saw a lot of stations on 20M and 1 on 30M will try to get on more to fully check it out.

While setting up for WSPR ops- the first time in a long time- I noticed a lot of "racket" (noise) just before and after the WSPR program transmits its audio tones.

Some further observation found that; regardless of the WSPR program, my FT-857D (s/n 4J31...) makes a great deal of audio noise in transmit mode. The noise is obvious, when all audio input is turned off or unplugged. With the mic gain turned down to zero, or mic unplugged etc., and the RF power output tried at various levels, the noise is heard in a nearby monitoring receiver. (Even XMITR turned right down to its lowest output setting of 5 Watts still produced the noise)

JE NE SUIS PAS UN ADEPTE DE LA LANGUE ANGLAISE SI QUELQU'UN EST .........

CONTACTER MOI

Iahve activated my 10 meter receive only WSPR station as of this morning.

Will try to keep it up 24/7 as much as possible until I get it I can move it to the "server farm" also known as my garage...

Will also try to get a better antenna setup as I am using my only 10 meter antenna right now in a Moxon beam aimed 180degrees from my QTH FM09ap.

I was just wondering what has been done with the data that we've been collecting? I would be interested in seeing what has been learned. It would be interesting to see if the data could be used to model path loss between various parts of the world maybe tying that in with solar activity. I must admit that at the moment I don't know were to start trying to put that kind of a model together, but if anybody has come up with results like that, please share. Maybe people have and I just missed it.
Thanks,
Steve
AI4WV

Hello all: 8/29/2010 produced the most TA decodes so far this summer. The lessening noise levels being the biggest help. G8HUH decoded me 4 times, and PA0HCK decoded me 3 times. I'm still using 20 watts, as I have seen this to be about the minimum needed from my QTH. Winter time should produce many good TA decodes. 73, and good WSPR-ing
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I set up to monitor only on Monday night here8/9/2010. Unfortunately I did not get any decodes from abroad, even though there were a couple of stations running 20 watts, However !!! I did see traces from F8BOJ - Marcel for sure in the 04:00 UTC hour. I saw his signal on the waterfall 3 times during the hour. 1 was broken quite a bit, another was solid for the 2 minute duration but very dim. And one transmission was a soild 2 minute trace that was just barely under the threshold for a decode. My thoughts; had Marcel been transmitting continuously, or every other sequence, it is likely that I would have gotten a decode during the 04:00 UTC hour at some point. Hopefully there will be another night to try. 73 to all :

Dave, G0DJA and I had a go with WSPR on 23cm today.

Dave transmitted today & I listened.

We only tried a few transmit cycles. I received good strong traces with little drift and with rx well time-synched.

On 4m, Brian's signals from Liverpool way often show doppler reflections & distortion, but decodes are reliable.

On 23cm there were similar doppler effects on Daves' signals with one trace showing significant reflections + or - 80Hz either side of the transmission. The signal also looked to be wider bandwidth, but this might be a side effect of Daves strong local signal.

None of the packets decoded.