[Elecraft] [LF] 474.2 KHz - Success!

[drewko]

I set up WSPR last night on 474 KHz here from SNJ. Receive only using
a 90 ft endfed wire antenna, my K3 with new synth card. Logged 137
reports with 6 different stations as far as 1300 miles west.  They
were running between 1 and 10 watts.

73,
Drew
AF2Z



On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:23:42 -0700, you wrote:

>The WSPR screen was full of transmissions this AM!  My grid is CM98LW
>
>The log starts at 0245 UTC when it was still not dark.
>
>Call    Grid   SNR
>WH2XGP  DN07   -20
>WG2XXM  EM15   -30
>WG2XSV  CN85   -27
>WG2XIQ  EM12   -28
>
>SNR's maxed out a few hours before sunrise here in the -5 to -1 dB 
>range.  Here's what I learned:
>
>The new synthesizer does in fact work very well in the LF/MF range.  You 
>need the KXV3(A) option, anyone with a P3 has it.  I used my flagpole 
>[~25 ft] on the corner of our deck for the antenna, I've got a single 
>wire from its base that comes into the shack which I plugged into the RX 
>ANT jack.  Tapping RX ANT made everything come alive.  It also brought 
>up the preamp which was way too much.  NDB "LV" was very strong in a CW BW.
>
>WSPR was set for RX only.  Haven't figured out yet how to send my spots 
>into WSPRNet or how to interpret it.  I'll run again tonight using my 
>large sloping-V low band antenna.
>
>73,
>
>Fred K6DGW
>- Northern California Contest Club
>- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
>- www.cqp.org
>