[NLRS] WSPR on Tuesday

Tue Jun 10 19:05:04 EDT 2025

I'm also running a 9700 here, and I noticed if I pushed the power much
past 20 watts I would not see myself get decoded anymore.  10 watts
seemed to be my sweet spot and I can see in a few of my WSPR reports I
had about 4 hertz drift around that power level.   Later this week for
science I'm going to setup my 705 on a dummy load and to listen to my
WSPR transmissions and see what I record my drift as at different
power levels.  I do think I will be looking at one of those Leo Bodnar
GPSDO boxes for my 9700 in the future.

Also, this morning I was noticing while I was getting heard I wasn't
hearing anyone at all.  I tried an experiment and moved my LNA from my
sat egg beater antenna over to the beam and as soon as I turned it on
I was able to copy N0JCF fairly well.  It's amazing how well those
mast mount preamps work.

73s,
Erica, W7WXR

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM Dave Fugleberg <dave.w0zf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jon.
> I suppose if I'm ever to get with the times, that injection board/GPSDO combo would be a good investment.  I've just never had enough interest in digital modes to consider it before.  It's unfortunate that Icom didn't just include the ability to connect an external reference oscillator in the first place, but the Bodnar injection board looks like a clever and relatively cheap way to overcome that issue.
> With that modification, is the 9700 a good IF rig for a 10GHz transverter?  I realize that a lot of folks use much cheaper all-mode 2m rigs for that, but since I already have the 9700, that would get me that much closer to finally getting on that band...
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM Jon Platt <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Yes, I am running with the Leo Bodnar GPSDO and 9700 injection board.  Looks like he sells them as a kit now (GPSDO, injection board, cable).. Easy installation that is reversible if so needed.
>>
>> Years ago when I installed a DEMI 222 transverter with its crystal LO with heater, inside my FT897, the first time the FT897 fan turned on it introduced the most interesting fan induced modulation with that cooler air blowing over the crystal heater.
>>
>> 73, Jon
>> W0ZQ
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>> On Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 01:54:10 PM CDT, Dave Fugleberg <dave.w0zf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> for those of you with an IC-9700...how stable to you find it to be?  I'm seeing a lot of traces in the waterfall with significant drift (like 30-50 Hz) over the course of the 2 minute WSPR window on 70cm.  Not nearly as pronounced on 2m.   I have yet to copy anyone on 70cm - maybe that's why.  Has anyone added that ref lock board from Leo Bodnar to their 9700?
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>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Tuesday (06/10/2025 at 09:13AM -0500), Dave Fugleberg wrote:
>> > I left WSPR on 2m RX overnight - I've had a bunch of decodes on from K0RAE,
>> > N0JCF, and W0ZQ.
>> > Just switched it back to band-hopping between 2m and 70cm and enabled TX,
>> > so will monitor today and see what happens. Currently pointing slightly
>> > southwest from EN34iq (just south of Buck Hill in Lakeville).
>>
>> Great!  I'll turn band hopping back on then too.  Have been just on 2m
>> since last evening.
>>
>> Seeing lots of decodes today including W7WXR in Fargo... and I see I
>> was decoded there as well.
>>
>> Also did some testing late yesterday with my buddy out in Chippewa Falls
>> (EN44ix) on 2m.  He was Rx with a 3dBd vertical omni on his house roof
>> and an IC-746PRO with no preamp.  I was Tx with just 25W and 12 elements
>> at 40'.  So, his setup is an interesting example of a monitoring station.
>>
>> Chris NØJCF
>>
>> --
>> Chris Elmquist
>>
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