First Spot from over the Atlantic via WSPR…

October 22, 2008 | Amateur Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Today, on wsprnet.org, W1BW announced that Wednesdays would be “Special Activity Days”, and that today’s special activity would be to operate on 20m instead of the more common 30m. Overall, I didn’t get as many spots as I typically get during the day on 30m, but I did manage to get a spot from GW4VBE, which counts as my first cross-Atlantic spot. To celebrate, I created a new WSPR spot map:

I really do need a better antenna.