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Attached is a screen picture, showing K7EK signal received in my QTH on 40m.
It is not obvious on the WSPR screen, but on spectrum lab it was difficult to recognize a WSPR signal, as it was completly frequency spread out.
Of course no Decode...
Strongly suspect the effects of polar-flutter...

Soon after I got interested in WSPR, I was interested in the idea of running it on my Asus Eee PC netbook. Partly because running a desktop PC and an Elecraft K3/100 all day was consuming a lot of power just to generate a 1W signal. And partly because in any case, I was interested in using WSPR to test the effectiveness of some portable antennas, which needs to be done out of doors.

The attached graph shows the graphical 40m path analysis for the stations ZL2TLD (RE79tb) and F6IRF (JN35au) for the period Sept28 to Oct09 2008. The path is roughly 19000 kms for the short path and 21000 kms for the long path. (.../...)

Hello all,

Bruce,
It would find quite useful if you could insert somewhere on the page a small window showing the real-time solar data.
There is a sophisticated example on ON4KST 6m page. Don't think we need that level of sophistication, but just:
- Solar Flux
- SSN
- Kp
- Ap
- SSNe (Effective SSN, derived from Ionosonders measurements - The SSNe may take a negative value. This is the case at the moment while the SSN is 0 for several months, thus not vy useful to estimate the day to day condx...)

Did an interesting test today to compare the performance of my 20m multiband dipole and my MFJ magnetic loop. Both are in the attic of my very small detached house, the dipole is in the apex at a height of about 8m above ground.

I have written an article about WSPR and how to get started. I thought I'd do it while it was fresh in my mind!

Just got started using WSPR, after it was mentioned to me in an email from a fellow Elecraft user, Trevor, G0KTN.

Starting tomorrow at 0z is the CQWW RTTY. Of course it won't affect 30m users, but 80, 40 and 20m are going to be full from edge to edge (and even outside the dedicated digital segments).
Rather than complaining about it (I am a contester myself !), I think it is a nice opportunity to focus on bands where the activity remains low or quasi inexistant: 17m during daytime and 160m at night.

Thanks to K9JKM and KF6KYI my amsat buddies in peaking my interests to try out wspr. Is very interesting.

I am building a ham shack at my new house so for now my shack is a folding table that sags in the middle, ha ha. Gear includes IC-706MKIIg and AT-180 coax tuner feeding 100 feet of rg-8 mini into an ALPHA DELTA DX-CC multi-band dipole sloping down at 45 degrees and folded over on itself about 50 degrees to face to the east.

N3CRT