Like you say Stefan the modes are changing
daily and there are too few operators to cover all these various modes.
I expect it will all fizzle out eventually
and then back to CW, QRSS and possible OPERA
Opera was gathering momentum when there was
suddenly a Mode change and now the few LF/MF operators are all scattered
On HF there is more consistancy as I said
earlier when it comes to data modes RTTY is the most prominent with
some PSK31
but there is more normal hand sent CW about
than anything else plus SSB.
The LF/MF bands are becomming too fragmented
both by Mode and Frequency.
Meanwhile I am back to HF dxing on CW
and looking around the lower freqs for CW acty.
Watching 472- 479 and 501 - 504 and 136- 138
approx
de mal/g3kev
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:46 PM
Subject:
Re: LF: Re: Experimental software for WSPR-8 and -32
Hi Markus, Jay, Terry, Chris, LF,
Thanks for the yesterdays WSPR-8 tests!
Somehow i thought there would be a more general interest in these
experiments but maybe it is to complex? Don't know... Another effect
may be that we try daily change the modes. But this is experimenting. I
hope that WSPR-32 will be a more serious alternative. From what we saw
in WSPR-8, WSPR-32 must be very promising and i'm optimistic to have a
decode from Venezuela!
The line on the map: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/WSPR-8_test.png
to W1VD is very bulky :-)
There were 11 decode by W1VD:
| Timestamp |
Call |
MHz |
SNR |
Drift |
Grid |
Pwr |
Reporter |
RGrid |
km |
az |
| 2012-09-23 05:08 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-23 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 03:48 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-25 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 03:28 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-27 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 02:48 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-27 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 02:28 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-26 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 02:08 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-23 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 01:28 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-25 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 01:08 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-27 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 00:28 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-26 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-23 00:08 |
DK7FC |
0.136164 |
-27 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
| 2012-09-22 23:48 |
DK7FC |
0.136223 |
-26 |
0 |
JN49ik |
1 |
W1VD |
FN31ls |
6099 |
295 |
Only 2 of them would have been in the range for WSPR-2 decodes. So the
slower mode certainly helped to cover a wider time range.
There are 3 grabbers showing the occupied bandwidth of WSPR-8 and later
WSPR-32:
http://qsl.net/4x1rf/yo/lfgrabber.htm
http://www.alice-dsl.net/df6nm/grabber/Grabber.htm
http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/schaefer_vlf/DK7FC_LF_DX_Grabber.html
Markus, i would agree to move to WSPR-32 now. Same QRG. Will be
interesting to see the new spectrograms and the possible distances! :-)
Oh, i musn't forget to add a switch across the cap of the watchdog
timer ;-)
73, Stefan/DK7FC
Am 23.09.2012 10:53, schrieb Markus Vester:
Thanks very much Jay, Terry
and Chris for taking the effort to receive and report our experiment,
and of course to Stefan for suggesting it in the first place. I think
the expected gain in sensitivity is evident, even though there is
no "miracle machine" of course. I
have now ended the WSPR-8 transmission from Nuernberg for today.
How would you like to proceed
from here? Try WSPR-32 next? Perhaps a slow WSPR experiment on MF?
Or wait for Joe's 8-FSK mode JT8 which might knock off another dB?
BTW I don't use a transverter
for MF, but an FE-5680A Rubidium synthesizer which can be controlled to
generate WSPR directly.
Best wishes, and have a nice
Sunday,
Markus (DF6NM)
