[ARCHIVED THREAD] - WSPR (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/24/2013 7:39:54 PM EDT
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Anyone transmitting on WSPR? I'm really enjoying seeing all the hits I'm getting even with my crappy antenna, alot from the left coast but some as far as New Hampshire.
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Anyone transmitting on WSPR? LMGTFY 
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Why play WSPR when you can make contacts with JT65 or JT9? Don't let BD hear you! 
Op one of the members here has done some crazy stuff with low power wspr. don't quote me but I think it was 1,000,000 miles per watt ARCHIVED THREAD - WSPR Experiments Using Ultra-Low Power ***SUCCESS*** 
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I just downloaded WSPR a little while ago. I've been drinking beer, eating Cheetos and messing around with WSPR and decided to try 10M because I could... imagine my surprise when I made a 10,000 mile trip to Australia with 5W on 10 meters 
edit: with a K index of 5
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I just downloaded WSPR a little while ago. I've been drinking beer, eating Cheetos and messing around with WSPR and decided to try 10M because I could... imagine my surprise when I made a 10,000 mile trip to Australia with 5W on 10 meters
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WSPR is a hoot, really enjoy playing with that... bounce back and forth between that and JT65...
From HI, I bet you would stay very busy with JT65.... On JT65 I had a QSO with a guy in Australia, he was operating 10W from a loop sitting on his back patio... JT and WSPR are a never ending list of surprises... |
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I guess I just don't see the point of WSPR....its not a 2-way QSO. You don't see the value as a tool for visually depicting propagation patterns? How about for testing different antennas? Oh yeah, it's FUN, too! Remember when this hobby was fun? I get it.....but for me PSK Reporter is good enough to see where my signal is being heard.
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Op one of the members here has done some crazy stuff with low power wspr. don't quote me but I think it was 1,000,000 miles per watt 1 million miles per watt is soooooo 2012. 2 million miles per watt is the new 1 million miles per watt. Warriors BD, come out to play!
ar-jedi 
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Anyone run an FT-857D and Signalink? I can not seem to get WSPR working. Cat control seems to work fine, tuning RF Gain and the RX on my signalink to get db down to zero in wspr. Dont see much on the waterfall, and I dont think anyone is receiving me. My settings
Screen shot Dig Mode User-U Dig Shift +1500 Dig Vox 0 Dig Gain 44 Dig Disp 0 |
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Anyone run an FT-857D and Signalink? I can not seem to get WSPR working. Cat control seems to work fine, tuning RF Gain and the RX on my signalink to get db down to zero in wspr. Dont see much on the waterfall, and I dont think anyone is receiving me. My settings Screen shot Dig Mode User-U Dig Shift +1500 Dig Vox 0 Dig Gain 44 Dig Disp 0 are you controlling your time? check out D4 if you're not http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/ |
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D4 really helped thanks. Tested for awhile, I need to find out why I am mostly deaf on this end. OCFD in my attic is my antenna and tweaking the settings is tricky for me. I could hear two of these contacts. All the others could hear me.
http://i.imgur.com/NupPHhq.jpg |
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Changed my radio digi settings from User-U to User-PSK-31 and started hearing and decoding many signals.
Cool contact from Wake Island. Screenshot Question on power settings, my radio is set at its minimum 5w, wspr at 37db (5w) and I left my signalink at what it has always been. If I want to lower power, will just adjusting wspr software do it? Or combine that with lowering the tx on my signalink? |
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Changed my radio digi settings from User-U to User-PSK-31 and started hearing and decoding many signals. Cool contact from Wake Island. Screenshot Question on power settings, my radio is set at its minimum 5w, wspr at 37db (5w) and I left my signalink at what it has always been. If I want to lower power, will just adjusting wspr software do it? Or combine that with lowering the tx on my signalink? Near as I can tell the WSPR software settings do nothing but set reporting info. I'm pretty sure power output is a combination of settings on your transceiver and the Signalink TX dial. |
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http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x266/k9-bob/Wspr_zps9a706c1b.jpg~original All of the cool kids are doing it.....  Look for me in about 45 minutes on 20m. |
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http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x266/k9-bob/Wspr_zps9a706c1b.jpg~original All of the cool kids are doing it..... Look for me in about 45 minutes on 20m. What mode? |
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See, I tried JT65-HF that you are always talking about, too. And I like it! Never too old to learn a new trick.  Quoted:
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I finally got around to trying WSPR that BigDaddy0004 is always talking about. See, I tried JT65-HF that you are always talking about, too. And I like it! Never too old to learn a new trick. Right on!
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http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x266/k9-bob/Wspr_zps9a706c1b.jpg~original All of the cool kids are doing it..... Look for me in about 45 minutes on 20m. What mode? WSPR |
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http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x266/k9-bob/Wspr_zps9a706c1b.jpg~original All of the cool kids are doing it..... If that is you in your screenshot, I'm reading you here in Hawaii. |
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http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x266/k9-bob/Wspr_zps9a706c1b.jpg~original All of the cool kids are doing it..... Look for me in about 45 minutes on 20m. What mode? WSPR Yeah, right after hitting "submit", my reading comprehension took place!
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Just close the Station setup parameters and move the mouse down to the bottom window and wait a few minutes. It should RX and then TX. Ahhh. Patience is a virtue my friend. 
I see it saying receiving but is it supposed to change my radio's freq? Forgot to set it to USB-D1 as well. 
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Ahhh. Patience is a virtue my friend.
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Just close the Station setup parameters and move the mouse down to the bottom window and wait a few minutes. It should RX and then TX. Ahhh. Patience is a virtue my friend.
I see it saying receiving but is it supposed to change my radio's freq? Great! You may need to adjust RX for "0" dB noise. |