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
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
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.