At present G6HSM is the only? regular wspr transmitting station at 70.151 tx schedule xx:x6
Occasional i am also at 70.151MHz tx and rx.
70.151 seems to be the agreed wspr dial frequency and FT8 = 70.154 this fit's in the DL 4m band
I was uncertain about receiving performance since the last DX event with the 2 Kazakhstan ham
i saw "everyone" working hearing UN7MBH and UN3M
here only 2 very weak decodes my antenna seems broken??
124700 -21 0.4 1105 ~ M0UKR UN7MBH R-23
130300 -15 0.2 1654 ~ CQ UN3M LO61 CQ Zone 17
Good to have a beacon with a weak stable signal within reasonable distance.
So i compared with an other 4m HAM receiving G6HSM and concluded nothing wrong here technical
Just i am in JO33HG north and ES tends to be staying more south...
Saved a session G6HSM that failed to decode however the trace looked fine to me to decode.
Checked save all, don't forget to uncheck it.
Every receive wav file takes 352k this one took 2813 k bytes. 8x more if deep decoding is checked.
If you run 24x7 wspr like me the HD can be stuffed with thousands of files.
I did reload/re-decode that wav session it did not decode.
Then i changed the decoding option from deep to normal and fast.Still no decoding
Changed it back to deep and then it decoded 3 times in a row that is strange or not ?
G6HSM DX is 427km
Weak trace with some drift on the edge of decoding
Receiving with homemade XVTR ,antenna 5el 22m a.g. preamp SPF4350z MMIC 0.8 n.f.
It does decode only about 50% of the transmissions
Stange is that weak traces seem to decode better then stronger one's ?
WSJT-x 2.01 screen copy : 2019 jun 20 18:39
1756 -22 -0.4 70.152430 -3 G6HSM JO01 30 427
1810 --------------------- Transmitting WSPR ----------------------- 4m
1812 --------------------- Transmitting WSPR ----------------------- 4m
1814 --------------------- Transmitting WSPR ----------------------- 4m
1456 -25 -0.2 0.001436 -3 G6HSM JO01 30 427
1456 -25 -0.2 0.001436 -3 G6HSM JO01 30 427
1456 -25 -0.2 0.001436 -3 G6HSM JO01 30 42770
1832 --------------------- Transmitting WSPR ----------------------- 4m
the last 3 decode lines are from reading the wav file
Note that the frequency is replaced by the time of recording.
Database
4 spots:
Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az
2019-06-20 14:56 G6HSM 70.152436 -25 -3 JO01oe 1 PA0O JO33hg 435 56
2019-06-20 15:16 G6HSM 70.152435 -24 -3 JO01oe 1 PA0O JO33hg 435 56
2019-06-20 17:56 G6HSM 70.152430 -22 -3 JO01oe 1 PA0O JO33hg 435 56
2019-06-20 18:36 G6HSM 70.152420 -23 -4 JO01oe 1 PA0O JO33hg 435 56
since i have done this test where i only changed the decode setting to fast normal and back to deep where was.
Coincidence or not In a row all tx sessions are decoded !
2106 2116 2126 2136 2146 2156 ..
Something is changed ? possible it was not really set to deep internal??
last week some more results but only very few active 4m WSPR
Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az # Spots
2019-06-21 08:04 PA0O 70.152583 -23 -1 JO33hg 10 G8BQR IO82ve 606 262 8
2019-06-16 18:16 G6HSM 70.152438 -23 -3 JO01oe 1 PA0O JO33hg 435 56 32
2019-06-21 10:58 OZ7IT 70.152472 -17 -1 JO65df 5 PA0O JO33hg 428 242 3
2019-06-21 09:54 PA0O 70.152603 -7 0 JO33hg 10 OZ7IT JO65df 428 57 23
2019-06-21 08:52 PA0O 70.152560 -3 1 JO33hg 10 PD0OHW JO33lc 29 130 3
Comments
natuurlijk de kwaliteit van het signaal is belangrijker dan de sterkte
mogelijk toch fase vervorming die niet zo zichtbaar is in een spoor
Overigens het kan ook toeval zijn later was de decode ratio weer slechter
zeg maar ca 50% van G6HSM .
Toch raar dat de opname in 2e instantie toch normaal gedecodeerd werd.
En jammer dat er zo weinig op 4m te beleven valt dit seizoen
Jaap