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:

 

 

This map view shows all the stations I heard on 2m.

 

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