[Lowfer] Bogus WSPR decodes

John Andrews w1tag at charter.net
Sun Mar 7 09:56:24 EST 2010


Paul, J.B.,

On 3/7/2010 9:44 AM, jrusgrove at comcast.net wrote:
> That's a bogus decode. You can count the number of active stations on 137 kHz on your fingers and
> toes and have some left over...and that's not one of them. Another tip off is the grid square - it's
> somewhere in the vicinity of Australia.

I'm getting tons of bogus decodes on 137 trying to copy Dex's signal. My 
screen is a mess of AC-related squigglies and Canadian East Loran lines. 
But as Jay points out, an infinite number of monkeys can type out a lot 
of real callsigns, but they rarely assign them a valid grid square!

John A.


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