[Lowfer] WSPR on MF last 24 hours

[John Langridge]

Good info JD!  thank you for the reports.  crazy night for sure...


XIQ


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 From: JD <listread at lwca.org>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WSPR on MF last 24 hours
 

The milder noise levels really helped WSPR reception last night.  And, I'm 
pleased to see my logs are finally uploading OK.  The first one never did 
show up.  The second one mostly loaded, and the one I sent this morning 
seemed to be all there in the database immediately.  AFAIK, I'm not doing 
anything differently

Just by way of summary, XXM was its usual powerhouse self, XIQ was back and 
in fine form, sometimes only 2 dB lower than XXM.  XXM was audible every 
transmission and XIQ was audible for many of them.   XKA was a recurring 
visitor early in the evening, then XJM the rest of the night.  XSV made four 
or five appearances, and BDQ came through twice.

Might have had more decodes, except for two things: listening out for SL 
over extended periods; and, a couple stations' timing was so far off that 
the decoding process took too long and WSPR 2.12 sat out an entire time slot 
every so often as a result.  When I retarded the computer clock to be about 
a second behind WWV, that seemed to clear up the collisions and the 
"attempted to start decoder too soon" error messages.

An exhausting but fun night!

John


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