VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

Earlier this week, a brief path was discovered between VK4TVL Townsville and W8AC in Ohio. The 16th at 2206 UTC, which is about 3 hours before sundown in Ohio. Well done to both, that was pretty awesome

VK4TVL - 20W to a J-pole
W8AC - 5 Element yagi

Some comments from Lloyd VK4TVL -

All looked quiet this morning on 6m ..But what a surprise ..East coast USA ....
1 spots:
Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km az
2014-06-16 22:06 VK4TVL 50.294544 -24 0 QH30jq 20 W8AC EN91jm 14877 km

And from Jim W8AC -
This is great Lloyd. Two months ago I put up a 5 element yagi and aimed it at VK land. I was planning to run it
for 4 months just to see if I could hear Australia, which in my 50+ years in ham radio I never
have on 6M.

Couple of sneaky paths out of VK4TVL recently -

2014-09-26 03:24 KH6UL 50.294514 -20 -1 BL11 0.05 VK4TVL QH30jq 7608 km
2014-09-25 05:24 KH6UL 50.294491 -23 0 BL11 0.05 VK4TVL QH30jq 7608 km

Also the usual big evening TEP sigs -

2014-09-25 09:52 VK4TVL 50.294505 -1 0 QH30jq 20 JH1GYE PM96mi 6243 km
2014-09-25 09:50 JH1GYE 50.294528 +3 0 PM96mi 5 VK4TVL QH30jq 6243 km
2014-09-25 09:14 JH1GYE 50.294529 -2 0 PM96mi 5 VK4TVL QH30jq 6243 km

More great paths recently recorded by VK4TVL WSPR.

The challenge is how to exploit this excellent research and turn it into two-way QSO's. Surely contact via JT65 would be possible?

73

Wayne VK4WDM

More VK4TVL action yesterday with N3IZN Becoming fairly regular at the moment.

Another brief path from VK4TVL to N3IZN today.

2014-10-16 01:22 VK4TVL 50.294482 -23 0 QH30jq 20 N3IZNRX DM13ji 11711 km

Screen shot below from the N3IZN side of the path -

Here are some interesting spots that were received overnight.

2014-12-07 16:36 VK4TVL 50.294477 -22 QH30jq +43 VK2CBL QF56hh 1643 Km
2014-12-07 16:26 VK4TVL 50.294477 -18 QH30jq +43 VK2CBL QF56hh 1643 Km
2014-12-07 16:16 VK4TVL 50.294477 -19 QH30jq +43 VK2CBL QF56hh 1643 Km

2014-12-07 14:32 VK2CBL 50.294531 -8 QF56hh +33 VK5ZRL PF95gc 1117 Km
2014-12-07 14:24 VK2CBL 50.294531 +1 QF56hh +33 VK5ZRL PF95gc 1117 Km
2014-12-07 14:16 VK2CBL 50.294531 -1 QF56hh +33 VK5ZRL PF95gc 1117 Km

Cheers.

From the weekend:

First time on WSPR.

2014-12-06 03:56 JH1GYE 50.294589 -26 0 PM96mi 5 VK7HA QE36mx 8863 174
2014-12-06 03:46 JH1GYE 50.294589 -12 0 PM96mi 5 VK7HA QE36mx 8863 174

Well done all.

Right spot at the right time - the great advantage of WSPR.

Some good news on the WSPR main page from JH1GYE -

Japanese 6m Band Plan
In Japan, 6m band plan will be changed from January 5.
Narrow band data communication will be OK between 50.2 and 51.0MHz.

So transmission of WSPR on 50.293 from Japan will be legal. Will hopefully see a few more JA's providing from transmissions.

A nice lot of short E skip down to about 760 km between 1030 and 1130 utc 18.12.12. Signal strengths not real high though, I didnt hav anything show up on 162 MHz marine tracking.

What a brilliant day we all had on 6m WSPR today
Mostly in the morning till mid afternoon.
Some double hop Es and also some very short Es into the 500 km zone with +dB readings. No 2m paths were noticed.
Afternoon TEP also came in with numerous JA's.

Need more US stations still..cheers de VK4TVL / VK4FP

iv only just started playing around with WSPR but it seems for 6m alot of people (within VK) are RX only this isnt going to test the propagation very well if everyone is listening and no 1 is transmitting. its the same old case of "iv been listening all day but the band is dead" yet made no attempt to call CQ.

Anyway, just my view for the last few days.

Ill be keeping my one on 6m as often as i can.

Jono
VK6DF

Hi Jono,

Something weird has been goin on with the WSPR net site the past few days which may have made some put their programs to RX only as there was no results to view on the site.
Personally I cant really TX at present as the SWR on my antenna is a bit too high, plus its a bit to hot inside the shack during the day, but I can still offer my station to provide reports, which anyone can view online. I'm thankful that there are at least people with their stations on and listening and able to provide reports as they could just as easily switch them offline completely and we'd have nothing.

Was advised by Victor HS0ZKM in Thailand, that he was able to hear signals from VK4TVL on 6m WSPR yesterday.
Victor is only using a longwire antenna, VK4TVL a J-pole.

6m WSPR looking good in EU areas over the past 24 hours. A lot more stations on in the USA at present also.