[Lowfer] WSPR-X

[n3cxv at n3cxv.com]

Hello,
 In a related story, I have been running WSPR 15 all night using WSPR-X.
 An hour ago I hit the "TUNE" button to check my SWR.
 Unknown to me, that froze WSPR-X. Hard to tell when it's moving so slow.
 So I have missed the last few sequences.
 Have restarted and hope I'm back running.
  
 There is no question that WSPR-X DOES NOT decode well. In WSPR 2 mode, fully 50% or more perfectly good signals
 do not decode. When run side by side with the older WSPR version 2.0 there is little or no doubt of this statement.
  
 WSJT-X, however, is great. When run with WSPR2.0 it beats it well. See http://n3cxv.com/index_files/630_Meters.htm
  
 Paint is still drying....
 Care.
 Bill
 N3CXV / WH2XRR
  
  

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 From: "Jim Davey" <k8rz at etcmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2015 10:43 AM
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WSPR-X   
Hi Mike:

I¹ve noticed something similar. I leave an old WinXP laptop running WSPR
2.0 on 476 kHz 24/7 while I am gone on long business trips and have
noticed that after about 3.5 days, or 85 hours or so, it just quits
reporting. We tend to have small power ³flickers² at the house which I
first blamed for this. I put a UPS on the system and it still happens,
and I have started noticing a pattern. When I return and check, the WSPR
software is still open, but appears to be frozen with regard to decoding
(last decoded message displays a date/time that is several days old). The
wireless link to the router is up and strong. Computer and WSPR timing is
perfect. I close and restart WSPR but do not reboot the computer, which
may be making my problem worse. Anything you can discover related to this
would be of great interest. Guess I assumed WSPR monitoring was conceived
as a continual thing so never gave any thought to files getting too large,
but now am beginning to think there may be more to it.

Jim K8RZ

On 12/13/15, 10:16 AM, "Lowfer on behalf of Michael Sapp"
<lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of wa3tts at verizon.net> wrote:

>Hi All: I noticed a few weeks ago that WSPR-X tends to leave a fair
>number
>of temporary files on my PC, so I have been cleaning them out
>regularly....as well as turning the PCs and my router off everyday for
>restart. My son's video gaming tends to fill up the BGP routing table
>frequently in my router, which eventually requires a reset. Makes me
>wonder
>if a similar situation exists with WSPR over time and if that would slow
>down or occasionally prevent a connection to the WSPR DB.....
>
>LF/MF WSPR2 & WSPR14 did not seem that great here as fare as propagation
>conditions overnight, but I did get a handful of VE7CNF and XGP decodes
>on
>630m. No XND decodes on 136 kHz here. I tried wspr2 on 136 kHz for about
>an
>hour last night around 0300 but not a trace of XND. Perhaps the WX QRN
>was
>the culprit as my NW direction was much quieter than SW when I switched
>around 0400...
>
>73 Mike wa3tts
>
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