[Lowfer] One more try QRSS10 on 160 meters

[Neil Klagge]

Here is my best shot of ku4xr on 160m overnight. The squiggle in the middle
is an AF "overtone" of my wspr xmission that was also running all night on
160m on the same antenna (44 ft vertical).

Neil , w0yse, Utah
DN41ac

w0yse, Layton Utah


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:52 PM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Hi Andy.  Found you somewhat below the indicated spot, but the signal was
> much cleaner tonight.  In the attached, I put the QRSS30 capture at the top
> to give an idea of the RF environment in which you were working, showing
> the last ID cycle that I captured.  The QRSS60 shot below shows that ID and
> the previous one, both without any appreciable noise spreading.
>
> The ringing you see at the start of elements in the 60-second version is
> because the signal to noise ratio was actually TOO good tonight for my
> pathetic soundcard, which wanted to automatically switch to mic level
> between dots & dashes, then had to switch back to line after it "heard" the
> tone for a while.  It was worse in the first ID cycle, not shown here.  I
> reduced that effect later by running up the level to the clipper, so the
> unwanted AGC in the soundcard had something to keep it occupied.
>
> Note also that sometimes QRSS30 did a better job in weak signal
> conditions, oddly, such as in the final "4."
>
> The WSPR-2 signal below you became my first decode ever in that mode, by
> the way.  Total gibberish from WSPR v2.0, which according to the displayed
> "decodes" apparently hallucinated that it was seeing assorted Belgian
> stations located somewhere in Louisiana running up to a megawatt.  But
> WSPR-X software in WSPR 2 mode did the job just fine, revealing the signal
> to be from K9PAW (yes, I know that looks like a joke, but it was consistent
> over consecutive decodes).
>
> Good luck jumping the big pond!
>
> John
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