[Lowfer] Wednesday night WSPR & other

[Laurence KL7 L]

John - thanks for the overnight update - it was a little better than previous nights up here with slightly less path attenuation on E/SE paths   - /20 just reached  "just" audible levels (he can be over S9 at times in the winter), XGP had many decodes and one decode each of XXM (its been a while) and XIQ at around the 4500/4900Kms mark around 1030Z or so at the peak of mid point "darkness" - using the L400B/R75 is still the best combo till the  Lime leaves leave locally..
 
We are getting less light and more darkness now - losing the sun at a rate of around 5 mins 41 sec per day and it really does dark completely from what I can tell...
 
Im still off the air on MF whilst I reconfigure the tx antennae - the wildlife is proving a barrier at the moment...
 
Laurence KL7L  WE2XPQ BP51 Eye Pee
 

 
> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:39:32 -0400
> Subject: [Lowfer] Wednesday night WSPR & other
> From: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> 
> Less noise last night than the prior session. Just got done uploading 
> the log.  Those present include regulars XXM and XIQ, plus XKA, XGP, 
> and XSH/20.
> 
>   I did a long monitoring session of MP from mid-afternoon to a couple 
> hours after sunset, the first time I'd been able to do that since its 
> return.  You may recall the sunrise capture from Wednesday morning.  
> Unfortunately, noise picked up early that afternoon and virtually 
> obliterated MP for the rest of the day, even using 60-second mode to 
> watch.  Yesterday was much better.
> 
> After switching over to WSPR at 630 m, I was looking for excessive 
> decode times due to XXM... and, unfortunately, they still do happen, 
> even in the wider bandwidth, no noise blanking, and no audio limiting.  
> There were several occasions last night where Argo showed ample signal 
>  from the more distant stations, but I got no decodes because WSPR was 
> still working to make sense of the excessively fuzzy signal from XXM 
> all by itself, up to two full timeslots before!  Not sure what to do 
> about that.
> 
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