Hey Graham:
Good to hear from you. Yes, I receive, as well as transmit.
I use a sequence of 33% for transmit time. My Windom is only
about 10 meters AGL, so my reception is not optimum at all.
Are you considering running some on 160 meters ?? I'm up
for a run any night.
73 to you for now ::
Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN. USA
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29875 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates: N: 35º 43' 54" - W: 84º 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr
http://webpages.charter.net/ku4xr/
--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Graham <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: LF: 160 meter WSPR ; pleasantly surprising results
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 2:46 PM
> Andy,
>
> Are you in -rx- mode as well ?
>
> G ..
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Andy - KU4XR" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:26 PM
> To: <[email protected]>;
> "Part-15 Yahoo" <[email protected]>;
>
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: LF: 160 meter WSPR ; pleasantly surprising
> results
>
> >
> > Hi all: Last night I ran WSPR on 160 meters at 5 Watts
> into a
> > Windom antenna up 32ft ( 15m ) AGL. There were a
> number of US
> > stations that took the time to look for my signal, and
> all of
> > them did get decodes. The most surprising, and
> pleasing report
> > came from the WSPRnet spot database. What I hoped to
> accomplish,
> > happened on the first overnight try:
> >
> > 2010-03-04 05:32 KU4XR 1.838102 -25 0 EM75xr 5 G4BOO
> IO91ij 6522 46
> >
> > 2010-03-04 05:42 KU4XR 1.838102 -30 0 EM75xr 5 G4BOO
> IO91ij 6522 46
> >
> > That's a distance of 6,522 Km, ( 4,052 miles ) - 810
> Miles Per Watt
> > From my QTH in Friendsville, TN. ( EM75xr ) to G4BOO (
> IO91ij )
> > David, in Thatcham Newbury, England.
> >
> > Thanks to Garry, Dick, Lloyd, Charlie, Mike, and Kurt
> for your
> > reports. And the database shows decodes from KB2MEN -
> Harry in
> > Hopewell, NJ.
> >
> > I only decoded 1 station from Oregon thru the night
> who was using
> > 100 Watts. I hope to get some EU / UK decodes
> from here.
> >
> > 73 to all::
> >
> >
> > Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN. USA
> > LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29875 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
> > Coordinates: N: 35º 43' 54" - W:
> 84º 3' 16"
> > http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr
> > http://webpages.charter.net/ku4xr/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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