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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:41:27 -0500
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From: Robert H Reif <cw4ever4@juno.com>
Subject: Re: LF: "WA" beacon  & WSPR 2.0
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Hello, Graham, Rik, and All,
       Joe K1JT was kind enough to modify the WSPR program to accommodate
our long calls with the /.  It takes two, 2 minute transmissions to send
the full call, grid, and power.  You may see decodes  that look like
<...> followed by the grid and/or power.  WSPR has not decoded the call
yet but only the second part of the complete message. With a marginal
signal and fades, this may be all you will get.  I don't know how long it
stores the second half (or the first half) of the message to splice it
together.  Joe also added the  CW ID feature to version 2.0 which is
required by our experimental license.  He has been very supportive of our
600 meter efforts.  
     The set up here is 100 watts to a  wire, 35 ft inverted L with two
top loading wires each about 100 ft  long.  I am really surprised (and
pleased) to get across with this setup.  I am inland from the coast and
the path to Eu is over land till the path goes over salt water off the
coast of New Brunswick, Canada.  Want to raise the antenna a bit more and
increase the top loading but that may not happen till spring now.  
     73 and Happy New Year.  Bob  WD2XSH/37  FN42fo 



On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:34:15 +0100 Rik Strobbe
<Rik.Strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be> writes:
> Graham, Rick, Bob,
> 
> I guess that when the CW id of a WSPR station is audible there 
> should  
> be solid copy in WSPR.
> But, as mentioned by Bob, WSPR 2.0 was used to transmit the unusual  
> 
> WD2XSH/37 callsign. I noticed that older version of WSPR do not copy 
>  
> this properly, even when the signal is strong.
> I have been running WSPR2 and WSPR1.1 simultaniously for some days  
> 
> (the first spotting as ON7YD the other as OR7T) and noticed that  
> WD2XSH/37 produced all kinds of odd messages with WSPR1.1. WSPR2  
> decodes OK.
> 
> 73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
> 
> Quoting Graham <g8fzk@g8fzk.fsnet.co.uk>:
> 
> > Rick,
> >
> > Looks like  wd2x ..   was the  station .. you  can  check what 
> stations are
> > operating at :  http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/spots
> >
> > 2009-12-24 03:38   WD2XSH/37   0.503912   -26   0   FN42fo   2   
> ON7YD
> > JO20ix   5615   52
> >
> > G..
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Rick Wakatori" <7l1rll@dp.u-netsurf.ne.jp>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 10:39 AM
> > To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> > Subject: LF: "WA" beacon received at 503kHz.
> >
> >>
> >> Using WSPR, I heard "WA" beacon in CW or QRSS at around 503kHz.
> >> The signal was visible on the screen during last night.
> >> Please let me know the callsign and the QTH?
> >> Rick
> >> --
> >> -.. .  --...  .-.. .---- .-. .-.. .-.. .-.-.
> >> 7L1RLL under ubuntu/Linux in Kawasaki,Japan(JP)
> >> URL=http://www1.u-netsurf.ne.jp/~7l1rll/radio.html
> >> -..--- -.- .-.. ..-.. --. --. ...- .-... ...-.
> >>
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