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.

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:

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

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