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Re: LF: RE: WSPR Reports

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Subject: Re: LF: RE: WSPR Reports
From: "Clemens Paul" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:27:59 +0100
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This phenomen,or rather bug,has been reported here by several list members.
I have made the same observations.
Reducing the RX BW from e.g. 250Hz to something below 100Hz results in
an increase of *reported* SNR of up to around 15dB!
I've done some tests with a friend 20km away on 10m and we've found out that the *real* SNR
is not improved a bit or in other words an extreme weak wspr signal which was just below
the decoding threshold in 250Hz BW coudn't be decoded with 20Hz BW either.
 
73
Clemens
DL4RAJ
 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: LF: RE: WSPR Reports

All the critical filtering is done in the software, and results in a 1.46Hz noise bandwidth - which is what the software measures and reports upon.
 
Your observation that a narrower IF bandwidth is interesting.   Its most likely based on the fact that typical signals are corrupted by pulsed non-gaussian noise which upsets the frequency bin detection process, and upsets sync recovery.
 

Andy
www.g4jnt.com

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2010/1/27 Rik Strobbe <[email protected]>
Andy,
 
maybe the "magic" lies in a narrow filter (either IF or audio).
If I switch from a 2.5kHz (SSB) filter to a 270 Hz filter I also get a significant increase in SNR values reported by WSPR.
Unfortunaely it hardly affects the decoding level (minimal SNR needed to get a positive decode), that rises by almost the same amount.
 
73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T

Van: [email protected] [[email protected]] namens Andy Talbot [[email protected]]
Verzonden: woensdag 27 januari 2010 21:26
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: LF: WSPR Reports

Has F6CNI managed some sort of magic noise reduction system, or is it a just a case of being in a very quiet location...
These are pretty impressive S/N values
 
 
 2010-01-27 20:14   G4JNT   0.503875   +13   0   IO90iv   +23   0.200   F6CNI   JN19qb   391   243 
 2010-01-27 20:08   G4JNT   0.503875   +10   0   IO90iv   +23   0.200   F6CNI   JN19qb   391   243 
 2010-01-27 20:02   PA0A   0.503900   +15   0   JO33de   +37   5.012   F6CNI   JN19qb   502   312 
 2010-01-27 20:00   G4JNT   0.503875   +14   0   IO90iv   +23   0.200   F6CNI   JN19qb   391   243 
 2010-01-27 19:54   G7NKS   0.503920   -5   0   IO92ub   +20   0.100   F6CNI   JN19qb   422   262 
 2010-01-27 19:54   G4JNT   0.503875   +14   0   IO90iv   +23   0.200   F6CNI   JN19qb   391   243 
 2010-01-27 19:44   G4JNT   0.503875   +10   0   IO90iv   +23   0.200   F6CNI   JN19qb   391   243 
 2010-01-27 19:40   PA0A   0.503900   +15   0   JO33de   +37   5.012   F6CNI   JN19qb   502   312 
 



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