ON3JT

My top 5 of my best dx using wspr. On 20m the antenna is a half wave vertical. On 80/40 and 30m I used the Diamond W735 with an extra dipole for 30m. This antenna hangs just 2 meter above the lawn.

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A friend of me asked if I could detect some WSPR signals on 20m. He has been monitoring it a while without any activity.
I also read the comments of G4ILO on the WSPRnet.org site : http://wsprnet.org/drupal/node/384
I must admit that I was also stuck on 30m.
He made a statement and yesterday I had a day off. A whole day of listening later this is what passed my screen :

Timestamp        Call   MHz       SNR Drift Grid   Pwr Reporter RGrid  km    az
2009-01-21 10:48 EA1FAQ 14.097137 -24  0    IN71op 0.5 ON3JT    JO21fe 1274   30
2009-01-21 09:58 VK6BN  14.097091 -23 -1    OF88ac 10  ON3JT    JO21fe 14167 313

Not much.

Hey guys, if you want that propagation monitoring works, we need to activite all bands.

Tonight I used WSPR again to see the activity on 30m. Now I received about 7 stations from the USA, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland, UK and the Czech republic. After a few hours I ticked the 20% T/R option. This switches the transceiver on for 20% of the time and the remaining 80% listening.

And yes, my signal gets out. Using only 2 watts my signal is picked up by VK6KHD, Nigel in Australia. My first.
That is about 14190 km or 7095 km per watt or very very far from my qth

Last saturday night my computer has been running all night long the WSPR (whisper) software from ….. to see if I could receive that mode too. My wife had the night shift in the hospital and could not argue that the computer is making too much noise in the bedroom That is the downside of having the shack in the bedroom.
I set the receiver to 10.138.7 in the 30m band and went to bed.

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