for those who like a challenge: WE2XVY (DM43) is wispering on 0.507985 with 1 Watt ERP 73, Rik ON7YD Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
I've been watching for WE2XVY as well, but nothing so far. I guess I'll be more likely than Rik to get a copy! I just had a look at the wsprnet.org database and besides those from KD7LMO (at 63km) no
Dear all, in Belgium we have access to 500kHz since about 1 year. Conditions (limitations) are: - 501-504kHz - max. 5 W EIRP - only telegraphy - max. 100Hz bandwidth - only full license holders ITU R
Hello John, is +/- 508.00 instead of 508.50 an option ? That way we would have you and WE2XVY (on 507.985) in the same WSPR window ? 73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T I will run a WSPR beacon on 508.500 kHz tonig
Wolf, congrats to all involved. I remember that long ago (in the 1980's) there was an 'april fools' article in the april number of CQ-DL where EME was declared an old hat and the first EVE (earth-ven
John, I just tuned to 506.5 dial and noticed a constant carrier on 507.998 Maybe a bit up (508.050 ?) would be better. Sorry to bother you again, I should have checked this before sending my previous
Walter, good copy here ... after I inserted a 20dB attenuator to keep DI2AM from activating the AGC. WSPR software seems to be sensitive to the receiver AGC action. 1948 -6 1.0 0.505092 0 DI2AG JN59
Dave, If I got it right their ran 5kW into a 20m dish at 2.4GHz. The dish gain should be about 50dBd. 50dB = 100000 times power gain, thus ERP = +/- 500MW The distance to Venus (today) is 0.281 AU =
I heard some replies to my CQ calls on 502kHz (5 March 22:00 - 22:20 UTC) but the signal was to weak to copy (also due to high QRN). Who called ? 73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.
Hello Andy, if I got it right the RX software will make a correct measurent as long as the signal is there during the 5 second period, even if the transmission start a few seconds early and stops a f
Gary, I am using a ceramic resonator VXO intended for normal CW. It drifted a bit earlier but seems to have stabilzed now. I re-tuned, now just 2Hz up from Andy. 73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T Rik, I make your
Thanks to all who reported. Conclusion of the first overnight test: stability of the current VXO is not optimal as the signal drifted several 10Hz during the night. It seems that the 5MHz recording s
Hello Laurie, nice to see you back and I hope your health will improve. There is indeed little activity on 500, but over the past days I heard GI4DPE, SM6BHZ (even in SSB), G3XIZ and GW3UEP. When tim
I just called CQ on 502.9, no reply :-( That makes 4 ;-) 73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T ONLY 3 IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!!! Actually 3, Mal, but we are not allowed to work DX... As far as I know there are only 2 a
at 15:50 UT also G3KEV (599) and G3XIZ (539) Rik ON7YD - OR7T G3YXM Good signal into Wallasey io83lk as well , Nothing from GW3UEP , but only using the ft897 and 35 ft vertical, no tuner thanks for t
Hello Dave, chances might be better with a QRS viewer. Or if the beacon software can share the soundcard you can run both. VXO is still drifting a bit, I adjusted it to 503705Hz at 21:45 utc. 73, Rik
Dear all, last night I ran just a short test till 21 utc. ERP was about 2 Watt (250W RF power), but I am not confident to run high power over night (unattended). My 500kHz antenna is surrounded by ma
Dave, I will leave the RX / PC monitoring overnight 73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T QRSS3 QRPP WD2XSH/17 505.259 kc. tonight all night @ 135 mw erp... TNX Dave @ /17
Hello Petr, 50-550kHz seems a "big shot". If you want to tune (bring to resonance) the antenna using a variometer it would need a ratio of (550/50)^2 = 121. The variometer I use on 500kHz has a range
Graham, I haven't connected the PTT to the PC, just key. When in the shack I can switch to RX manually, but otherwise not. I just re-tuned the VXO to Andy's frequency and started the TX. First transm
