Rob,I hooked up the ZackTek WSPR Desktop and am running regular 200mW for now or 250. I pointed in the direction towards your way I believe.I am busy this weekend but after I can try other radios and powers. Up to you testing wise.The antenna is 5 elements on 6 meters up about 75 feet on tower your direction.Maybe during the day would be better but letting it run all weekend.Mike n0 odk 73On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM Rob Jahnke <rcjahnke@gmail.com> wrote:That's a great idea Mike.I am in Sartell. I usually leave my log periodic pointed SE, but it got frozen on East with the rain we had.I'll move it back when I can, but the beam is fairly wide. I notice N0QDS is running 20W. I can hear him but he doesn't hear me with 5W. So I went to 20W on 6m. We'll see what happens. Of course if we get a nice opening, then the power will be overkill.Rob - K0XLOn Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM Mike P <mikepask1@gmail.com> wrote:I can put up some 6 meter WSPR no problem.I been very busy lately. I was even going to try 2M wspr someday.I usually do 160M and other HF bands.I am in Forest Lake, which direction on 6M for 200mW for now. I could do more but try that for now.Miken0odk73______________________________________________________________On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM <nlrs-request@mailman.qth.net> wrote:Send NLRS mailing list submissions to
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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 15:02:28 -0600
From: Rob Jahnke <rcjahnke@gmail.com>
To: Raymond Ehrlich <K0RAE@mail.com>
Cc: nlrs@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [NLRS] WSPR on 2m
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Thanks Ray,
I have also been playing with WSPR as a result of your presentation at
Aurora.
It is a lot of fun and very informative.
Problem is .... there are very few stations anywhere in the Midwest (or
even the US) WSPRing on VHF.
I have been WSPRing with 5W on 6m off and on from Nov 19th thru Dec 1st.
I have 106 6m spots during that time .... ALL from N0QDS running 20W :-)
N0QDS (nor anyone else) has not heard my 5W signal.
We could Fix that with more participation :-)
These are the 15 stations who heard N0QDS on 6m in the last 5 weeks.
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Rob - K0XL
On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 2:05?PM Raymond Ehrlich via NLRS <
nlrs@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> For those of you that attended my Fun with WSPR presentations, especially
> at the Aurora Conference back in June, I recommended that we focus on using
> WSPR on VHF and above. I have a setup that band hops through all the HF
> bands plus 6m, 2m, and 440. The other day I was playing around with
> WSPR.ROCKS and noticed something interesting on 2m. A few of weeks ago,
> there was some nice 2m propagations.
>
> Here are a couple of screenshots from WSPR.ROCKS - a map and table view:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> This map view shows all the stations I heard on 2m.
>
> [image: image.png]
> This table view shows all the same stations I heard on 2m, but a week
> later someone heard me - see top line at a distance of 861 kilometers away.
> This was all at 5 watts and below.
>
>
> Just think if I had been paying close attention to this back on those days
> and alerted this group about some good 2m propagation.
>
> Again, I encourage you to focus on VHF and above if you are planning to do
> WSPR. It appears that 2m and 440 don't have many transmitters or receivers
> here in the Midwest / upper Midwest.
>
> 73
>
> Ray Ehrlich - K0RAE
>
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