[Lowfer] Bogus WSPR decodes

[Paul Daulton]

John and Jay thanks for the reply. I thought it was somekind of miracle, but 
when nothing came on the rest of the night and the station was not on the 
list on WSPR I became a little doubtful. Its reassuring to know I am not 
looseing it.

I will try 600 meters and see what happens. 160 seems to do well.

Off the topic some what but related. My experience with phasing ssb was back 
in the '60s. I had a Central Electronis 10b and later a Ht37. I picked up a 
home brew ssb jr and a Cheap and Easy SSB( converted arc 5). With limited 
equipment the homebrew stuff was difficult to align. Current digital 
technology makes rf phasing easy to accomplish, but home brewing an audio 
phase shift  over a wide range a chore. But with WSPR, BPSK, WOLF and other 
modes phase shift at a single freq on audio would be easy.Would it be a 
practical project to make a phasing exciter for single tone or a narrow 
audio bandpass? I know simple designs exist for simple SDR exciters but I am 
thinking of  a stand alone unit? What do you think?

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Andrews" <w1tag at charter.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp;UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Bogus WSPR decodes


> 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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