I suspect the world would be better if that percentage were even greater.
WSPR signals heard from E51EME
I still check my WSPR station logs each morning when I wake up. This morning I spotted the callsign E51EME, coming from grid square BG08. I’ve come to realize that many of these spots which include only a four element grid designator are spurious bad decodes, and I didn’t recognize the prefix (I’m not much of a DX-er). But still, it decoded multiple times:
| Timestamp | Call | MHz | SNR | Drift | Grid | Pwr | Reporter | RGrid | km | az |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-12 12:16 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -22 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 11:44 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -20 | -1 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 11:32 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -18 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 11:24 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -17 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 11:14 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -15 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 11:06 | E51EME | 10.140135 | -12 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 10:56 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -12 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 10:44 | E51EME | 10.140135 | -10 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 10:32 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -11 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 10:12 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -11 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 10:04 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -14 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 09:56 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -17 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 09:44 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -18 | -1 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 09:34 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -18 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 09:24 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -20 | -1 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 09:16 | E51EME | 10.140137 | -19 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 09:04 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -19 | -1 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
| 2009-08-12 08:52 | E51EME | 10.140136 | -19 | 0 | BG08 | 5 | K6HX | CM87ux | 7649 | 30 |
A quick trip to QRZ.com verified that this was indeed a real call, Bob Sutton from Raratonga, in the Cook Islands. Very cool.
E51EME in Raratonga, the Cook Islands
Comments
Comment from Bob ZL1RS / E51EME
Time 10/14/2009 at 3:57 am
Yep, that was me while visiting with Victor E51CG. We had just installed his new antenna system and I left the WSPR mode running to see how propagation was on the 30M sloper. 73, Bob.
BTW, I did an EME operation from Rarotonga earlier in 2009 and worked 145 stations “off the moon” using K1JT’s other software masterpiece WSJT in JT65b mode.
Comment from Bill I0/N2CQR
Time 8/14/2009 at 9:25 pm
Mark: That “EME” suffix is interesting. Makes me think that Bob is into earth-moon-earth work also. Another area in which WSPR or similar software would be very useful. 73 Bill