[Lowfer] 2200M Strange Decode

n8tl n8tl at woh.rr.com
Sat Sep 12 21:15:42 EDT 2015


Hi Gary:

Yes...I figured as much.   I left the decoder and radio run all night. 
I'll give it another try tonight. and see what comes
out of the noise.

Thanks,

Tom  N8TL

On 9/12/2015 12:37, Garry wrote:
> Tom, whenever WSPR decodes something that looks "strange" you can be 
> confident it's in error. I assume the time 0148 is Z and there are no 
> decodes reported by others; if by chance it's your local time (0548Z) 
> there still are no other decodes reported. The 5.8 number indicates 
> the timing is way off and the -2 indicates a fair amount of drift 
> downward. The power indicated is only 200 mW and the grid is 
> inconsistent with the call (in the Seychelles Islands).
>
> Last night was pretty quiet here in terms of external noise. But 
> propagation on 474.2 kHz WSPR was unimpressive. Nothing decoded here 
> from the NW and the last decode was WG2XXM at 1130Z. Surprisingly, 
> WH2XND did better on 136 kHz WSPR. Although the SNRs weren't as high 
> as previous evenings (only -22 dB for the best out of 26 decodes), the 
> last decode was at 1152Z. The local sunrise boost was noticeably 
> better on 136 kHz than 474.2 kHz.



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