... like before, I am running two instances on the
same WSPRX installation (in c:\Programme\wsprx\ on an XP machine). This seems to
work flawlessly, with -2 and -15 decodes uploaded and interleaved correctly
in ALL_WSPR.TXT. The only surprise was that some .c2 and one .wav
file were left over in the save subdirectory, which is normally not
the case.
Using spearate DDS hardware and control program, I
did a couple of low power transmissions at either speed (not simultaneously
though ;-). Power was about 25 W into my TX Marconi at
half-height, maybe 0.1 W radiated power or so. Well I have to admit
neglecting my QRO duties to novices tonight ;-) But I was just too
lazy to push out the mast, only to pull it in again before leaving to
work tomorrow morning.
All the best,
Markus (DF6NM)
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: LF: 630M WSPR T/A - WSPR-15?
Hi Wolf, Markus !
For testing purposes you could run
WSPR-2-mode twice as well instead of -15 and -2.
Better use two
installations of WSPR-X into two separate directories from Root C:\, as WSPR
writes temporary *.wav and *.C2-files to its "save"-subdirectory (even at
save=none). They are deleted immediately after decode. Maybe one instance
deletes the file of the concurrent instance. At WSPR-15 and WSPR-2 both
beginn their cycle at 00:00 and 00:30, so the filenames may be identical,
leaving to confusion. There will be NO errormessages warning you!
At
the beginning of WSPR-X we learned that whitespace characters in
directory-names as well as local characters (German "Umlaute") are a bad
idea. This has not changed. Best use old-fashioned DOS names like
C:\wspr_2 and C:\wspr_15 or similar. There are no errormessages or
crash, it just will not decode anything. (experience of Stefan DK7FC at
that time)
73 de dg3lv Tobias
Am 26.05.2015 um 18:56 schrieb
Markus Vester: > Hi Wolf, > that's exactly what I did too, with same
results: wspr-2 running and > uploading fine, no chance to test -15 due to
lack of signals. But if > signals had been present on both bands, wouldn't
both instances try to > access the same files in the same directory, eg.
ALL_WSPR.TXT or > settings? Well, with Andy on -15 we may find out
tonight. > All the best, > Markus (DF6NM) > BTW I decoded
DF1VB for a while with 6.5 seconds latency, and then no > more - might
have been a too large clock offset. > > > -----Ursprüngliche
Mitteilung----- > Von: wolf_dl4yhf <[email protected]> > An:
rsgb_lf_group <[email protected]> >
Verschickt: Di, 26 Mai 2015 6:27 pm > Betreff: Re: LF: 630M WSPR T/A -
WSPR-15? > > rrr Stefan and Markus - thanks for the
info. > > I have two instances of WSPR-X running, launched from the
same > directory, one configured (manually) for WSPR-2 and the other for
-15. > Not a single decode from the latter yet. > > I guess as
long as they run, the two instances don't interfear (:o) > >
73, > Wolf DL4YHF . > > > Am
26.05.2015 02:19, schrieb Markus Vester: >> Wolf, as far as I know the
only way to separate them in the database >> seems to be sorting by
frequency (which is not very useful otherwise). >> There is a
peculiarity in that the hh:15 and hh:45 timestamps in the >> database
seem to be "rectified" to even minutes (hh:16 and hh:46) at >> midnight
UT (just happened to G4JNT entries). >> Stefan, I'm not sure about not
using -15 on MF. Even though fading is >> faster and deeper, the WSPR
decoder seems to cope well with it. After >> all WSPR-2 is useful on HF
where fading happens in seconds. The >> spectrogram of Andy's
transmission last night sometimes showed two >> deep fades in one
sequence, but it was decoded ok. It has been argued >> that a very
short and strong maximum might be utilized by -2 and not >> by -15, and
maybe there's not all of the theoretical 9 dB gain, but I >> reckon on
average it's not much less. >> Laurence yes your frequencies are
correct, dial *474.2 kHz*, RF: 475.6 >> - 475.8 WSPR-2, 475.8 - 475.825
WSPR-15. >> I wonder if it is possible to run two instances of WSPRX
side by side >> on the same machine, one for -2 and one for -15? Or
would they crash >> one another? >> 73,
Markus >> >> *From:* DK7FC <mailto:[email protected]> >>
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2015 1:16 AM >> *To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> >>
*Subject:* Re: LF: 630M WSPR T/A >> >> Am 25.05.2015 22:55,
schrieb wolf_dl4yhf: >>> p.s. is there a possibility to filter /
display only WSPR-15 decodes >>> from the database, and how
widespread is the use of that mode ? >> >> ...there have been
a few MF TA tests in WSPR-15 in the early 630m >> days, showing that
this mode is to slow for the path on that band. >> These tests have not
been very extended though. But most likely there >> is not a 'gain' of
9 dB over WSPR-2. I would assume that successful >> detections are even
less likely in that mode over the pond. >> >> 73,
Stefan >
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