[Lowfer] XGR/3 WSPR Test tonight

[Bill de Carle]

At 09:30 AM 4/1/2008, Stan, W1LE wrote:
>Good Morning Bill,
>
>How did you get to add the year-month-day for each line ?
>
>Can you describe the loop you use for receiving ?
>
>Thanks  Stan, W1LE   Cape Cod
>
>
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>>080401 0028  12 -11   0.0   0.508470  WE2XGR FN31 50
>>080401 0028   3 -26   0.1   0.508500  W1TAG FN42 52


Hi Stan and the group:

The program I was using did the timestamps.  I was using the
GUI version of WSPR - check Joe's website, maybe it became
available after you were there?

I was using my LF loop in the woods out back.  Basically I have
2 orthogonal loops in the trees, each about 100' circumference.
One loop favors East-West, the other favors North-South.
I can use either of them individually or both connected in
series (in two different ways, to select NE-SW or NW-SE).
I have a switchbox with some caps I can switch in for various
peaks on 137 and 160-190 Khz.  I don't have any caps which
are good for 500 Khz.  I went out last night in the dark to
hook up for NW-SE but no joy because it was raining hard
(we received about an inch of rain last night and the temp
was hovering around freezing) and the snow was so soft my
snowshoes sank in up to my calfs!  After a few frustrating
minutes I gave up and just used the already-connected EW loop
with the closest capacitor for 500 Khz.  The antenna was very
poor for 500 Khz in John & Jay's direction but I figured it
would be OK for WSPR.  Guess it wasn't good enough for the
15W signal.  During the entire test we had pretty horrible
powerline QRM here because everything was soaked.  Under
better condx I would have copied the 15W signal.

Bill