RE: LF: RE: WSPR Reports

[Rik Strobbe <Rik.Strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>]

Andy,

 

I am using a Kenwood TS440 where the AGC cannot be disabled. Strong signals and/or QRM-QRN ofter affect the AGC, but far less at 270Hz bandwidth.

Maybe the AGC action affects on the reported SNR values.

 

I believe that Andy (F6CNI) also is on the reflector, so he might reveal the secret.

 

73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T

 

 

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Van: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org [owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org] namens Andy Talbot [andy.g4jnt@googlemail.com]
Verzonden: woensdag 27 januari 2010 21:44
Aan: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Onderwerp: 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 <Rik.Strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>

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

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Van: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org [owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org] namens Andy Talbot [andy.g4jnt@googlemail.com]
Verzonden: woensdag 27 januari 2010 21:26
Aan: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
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

 

Andy
www.g4jnt.com