This mode is amazing the way it gets through in an apparently dead or noisy band.

Last night we (Tony VK6HAM and I) were getting good results around the place on 20 metres. We decided to crank down the power - tony was able to get down to 1 watt, I couldn't get below 5. We were still getting into Europe and other places. I think I'll have to learn how to put my auto ATU a bit offside to reduce the effective output.

Today I was getting around in spite of finding my loop antenna had one of its four corners on the ground. It's been a bit windy today.

The latest:
I changed soundcards - working off a Sound Blaster now, and I tweaked the sound levels, in and out, and its performing much better, both on send and receive.

Whew! I thought I was going mad. Perhaps I am, but WSPR works!!

Hi all

Yesterday I had my first serious play with WSPR, and I couldn't get it to decode what it was hearing. I fooled around with sound devices, but that wasn't the issue. I connected to a few time servers and "synchronised" the clock. No go. I was receiving stuff, getting nice green bars on the waterfall, but had no call signs or other data coming up.

I read some of the postings here, and against what I thought was my better judgment, installed Dimension 4. Then the signals began to decode, and I was operational.