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This year ARRL10  propagation was at minimum The season for 10m is over  in December Oktober or begin of November would be better.   I seached my latest 28.126MHz  WSPR DX  spots in 2018 : November: 181110 1014   5 -10  0.11  28.1261010  8Q7HI MJ63  181113 0926   4 -19  0.11  28.1260089  VK3KCX QF22 181115 0912   2 -24 -0.02  28.1260451  VK5AKK PF94 181117 1008   4 -18  0.19  28.1260740  FR1GZ LG79 181121 0816   3 -20  0.07  28.1260110  VK3KCX QF22 47 181121 0832   3 -19  0.15  28.1260863  VK2IJM QF56 40 181121 0952   3 -18  0.19  28.1260726  LG79RC 37 181123 1030   3 -21 -0.10  28.1260124  VK3KCX QF22 47 181126 0924   3 -15  0.11  28.1260089  VK3KCX QF22 47 December: 181208 0840   1 -26  0.11  28.12...

The first  FT8 contest  Needs the latest WSJT-x rc5 PG7V contest agenda shows how to prepare.  But i choose to install a separate instance of this rc5 version to keep the existent WSJT-x 1.9.1  unchanged  Installed WSJT-x rc5  not default but to WSJT-xRC5 Then renamed copy of shortcut: WSJT-X_Roundup Change property target:  Target: C:\WSJT\wsjtxRC5\bin\wsjtx.exe --rig-name=Roundup Start in:   C:\WSJT\wsjtxRC5 A  separate instance starts when clicking this shortcut all logfiles are virgin. wsjtxlog.adi  is not created yet it will when the first FT8 QSO is logged  This WSJT-x rc5 must be configured as a new install User , radio frequencies for RTTY I managed  132 QSO   i heard a lot more then I could work screen full USA  but even with extra power it was hard to be heard Nice experience    This contest exchange uses real reports! 529 539 539 559 ....   The max...

Now since using VbCable for the virtual audio connections P-SDR + WSJT v1.8 is working stable on the older X60 PC reducing CPU load using the information excellent  ke9ns.com/flexpage.html   Keeping the P-SDR screen as small as possible reduced the CPU load to acceptable 60% P-SDR  and running 2 instances of WSJT-X  need a faster PC A "slow" PC  drops decodes when  Power SDR is running together with a second instance of WSJT-X CPU load is 80-100%  on Lenovo X60  2400T  1.83GHz On a faster Thinkpad W510 W7 i7 1.83G 4 /8 core CPU load 20% Using  VBCable VB-Audio VAC  and VspMgr Installing was quick but P-SDR -FLex1500 would not receive, the PAN window was empty. The Flex1500 was connected over USB-3  - CAT  worked okay. Switching to USB-2  finally P-SDR started to work  and WSJT-X was decoding FT8 and WSPR But the  PowerSDR screen is cut off  and  fields and controls are ove...