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It’s my usual morning ritual to go back through my WSPR spots and my grabber images, and try to see if anything new shows up. This morning, I had an amazing (and still continuing as of this moment) string of beacon spots into Australia/New Zealand and of course WA2YUN’s station on Wake Island. Heck, I […]

I’m getting good propagation this evening out to VK land. David, VK6DI runs a grabber, and I started noting that my WSPR beaconw as getting in, so I decided to start sending my “MV” identifier. It’s making it! David’s grabber will soon be shutting down for his move across Australia, so this may be among […]

Check out his nice pictures and description of his beacon and keyer: iDuino Addendum: His oscillator/buffer board is a very cheap kit produced by www.vakits.com. It seems like quite a bargain, and could easily be the start of a MEPT project.

Today is a special event day, where those of a WSPR bent move from their 30m haunts to other bands. I’ve shifted operation over to the 40m band, and quickly netted a spot from DH5RAE (my first ever spot from Germany). Who knows that other stations will hear me? Stay tuned. Update: Wow, had some […]

First of all, starting within the next eight hours or so, my WSPR operations will shift over to 40m for a Wednesday “Special Activity Day” (check out wsprnet.org for details). During that time, my grabber will likely be imaging a part of the 40m spectrum which will likely have little/no activity, so it might not […]

Sometimes it’s amazing how people on opposite sides of the world get to working on the same thing. Paolo has been workin on using a simple MP3 player to play back the WSPR tones. He basically is trying to measure and control the time difference in playback so that he gets a cycle time which […]

Bill, IO/N2CQR over at Solder Smoke blog commented on one of the problems that I had with my WSPR beacon: that it had become “desynchronized” in time, and therefore the network of people who monitor the WSPR frequencies didn’t report any spots from me. Bill would like to minimize the parts count of his beacon […]

I have been trying to start a project to do a high altitude radio balloon launch. Toward that end, I ordered myself a Open Tracker Plus kit from Argent Data Systems today. It seems like a pretty trivial thing to tack together, and includes a nice little plastic case, so it should be good. For […]

I was getting some pretty good SNRs into the east coast this evening, so I set my MEPT beacon to SMT Hellschreiber mode. Here’s the clearest signal I’ve seen to date from W1BW:

I was scanning back through my log of all the pictures from my QRSS grabber over the past few days, and found this rather funny image in its midst: It wasn’t particularly courteous to take up the entire band, but as near as I can tell, the transmission didn’t repeat, so it wasn’t all that […]

In the comments to one of my postings about the K1EL, Tom, K9AC mentioned that I might want to look at K5BCQ’s list of kits. Indeed, they seem really cool, and very reasonably priced. I am particularly interested in their Si570 controller, and their Morse controller, but there are lots of other nifty little gadgets […]

While recovering from my brief outpatient procedure yesterday, I was surfing around, looking for the ChirpHell and ChirpPix programs that some people mentioned in the context of creating the Hellschreiber IDs that I saw yesterday. A bit of Googling revealed that they were written by DF6NM, so I did some more websearching, and as soon […]

Reveal yourself! 🙂 Addendum: Voila! And I’m not the only one listening!

This morning I was scanning my WSPR logs and my MEPT screenshots for the night. It seemed to be pretty good. I had quite a number of spots into Australia overnight: both from VK6DI (who is nearing the end of his time in VK6 land, we hope to see you again back on the eastern […]

David, VK6DI has his grabber running, and WB3ANQ, WA5DJJ and even NM5DV can be made out in not only my grabber, but in his as well.