Re: LF: MF WSPR RX

[STEVE MCDONALD <ve7sl@shaw.ca>]

Roger - If Europe is anything like NA, then the predominant mode is still WSPR. Things may change (I hope) to more two-way modes such as JT9 and CW, when the US comes on board. So you are probably just seeing the extent of your rx system capabilities on most normal nights. You'll probably see some interesting new stuff with the arrival of better winter propagation but it is much the same here at present, mostly seeing the same stations night after night until there is the odd really good night.

Steve  VE7SL  73

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From: "Roger Lapthorn" <rogerlapthorn@gmail.com>
To: "rsgb lf group" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>, "rsgb lf group" <rsgb_lf_group@yahoogroups.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, October 7, 2017 2:13:06 PM
Subject: LF: MF WSPR RX

OK, I don't have the best of set-ups on 474kHz WSPR. My RX is an FT817 (a bit deaf on 474.2kHz), my antenna the strapped feeder to my 2m big-wheel antenna via an ATU and my earth is the mains socket. Nonetheless, I get nightly spots of MF stations in Germany, Norway, Spain and Italy plus many others. My noise floor is S7-8 on MF.

Sadly, I am spotting the same stations again and again.

Is there another MF mode that has a wider selection of stations? JT65, JT9, FT8 for example? I am game to try any mode. At the moment I am RX only, although I did TX last season, a bit albeit with a very low ERP.

73s

Roger G3XBM