[Lowfer] VE7BDQ overnight WSPR 2

[JD]

>>> This noise that was near the freq I operate on, is it always there or is 
>>> it intermittent from session  to session?

Good question.  I'll have to check further and see at this location, as I 
hadn't run a waterfall on 630 since last summer.

Which brings up a question for the WSPR gurus:

My WSPR X installation refused to decode WSPR-2 when I tried it a couple of 
weeks ago.  Odd, because it seemed to work fine last summer, and I like its 
interface a lot better than WSPR 2.0.  It'd receive for the 2 minute slot, 
then immediately shut down rather than decode.  Last week I uninstalled it, 
also removed all remaining files that the uninstall didn't catch, and 
reinstalled it on the same machine (Acer notebook, Windows 7).  Yesterday 
afternoon I finaly got a chance to test it in the HF bands, where I could 
see there were plenty of WSPR-2 signals to work with.  The spectrum display 
is just fine, so it's apparently getting what it needs from the sound card. 
And it no longer crashes after the 2 minute receive slot--but it also makes 
no attempt to decode!  Ideas?

And, a final digital question for the day: while watching on 30 meters, 
there were tons of other transmission types, some of which I recognized and 
some of which I didn't.  Right below the WSPR window were a batch of slow, 
wide shift MFSK signals...very musical...occupying 50 seconds out of every 
minute and timed to start on the minute.  What would these be (capture 
attached)?  Thanks.

(BTW, I'm quite impressed with that 10 mW signal, John.)

JD 
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