[Lowfer] 2200M WSPR

[JD]

Didn't see the announcement for almost an hour and a half, but then I 
immediately dashed down to the field to look.  Had XND in the 2028 slot with 
an SNRr of -14, which was not bad considering there's a teady carrier within 
1 dB of the same level just 1.5 Hz below XND's center frequency.  Then XES 
came through during the 2030 slot with an SNRr of -28.

XND made it a few more times before XXM decided to join the party.  Didn't 
have any idea who it was when testing with steady carrier 10 Hz above XND, 
but the unmodulated signal only knocked XND down a few dB when I was still 
using the preamp and moderate audio clipping.  When it finally cranked up in 
WSPR mode, I still didn't know who it was for a while longer. The first WSPR 
transmission was so wide with the settings that I had, that WPR 2.0 took 
over 4 minutes before deciding it couldn't decode it!  Result: I missed six 
more minutes of receiving time, during which I cut the RF gain and audio 
clipping way back. After the first transmission, XXM went up another 10 Hz 
to 1520, and I finally got a decode of it several minutes later.

Being 29 dB stronger here than XND, the latter seldom decodes now. With XXM 
running 50% duty cycle, I think it's safe to assume I won't be seeing anyone 
from the Northeast again this afternoon, but I've left it running a while 
longer just in case.

John D

2030 -28 -1.0   0.137430  0 WD2XES FN42 30
2032 -14 -0.5   0.137500  0 WH2XND DM33 37
2036 -15 -0.5   0.137500  0 WH2XND DM33 37
2040 -14 -0.9   0.137500  0 WH2XND DM33 37
2044 -15 -0.7   0.137500  0 WH2XND DM33 37
2048 -16 -0.6   0.137500  0 WH2XND DM33 37
2102   9 -0.6   0.137523  0 WG2XXM EM15 0
2106   7 -0.7   0.137523  0 WG2XXM EM15 0
2110 -20 -0.7   0.137500  0 WH2XND DM33 37
2110   9 -0.8   0.137523  0 WG2XXM EM15 0