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Email from Curt AH6RE this morning for anyone who is interested.

Aloha,
I ran wspr on 6m yesterday for a couple of hours with no result, but today the SFI is over 150 so there is some hope.
I am on now and will be for the next couple of hours.
Curt AH6RE

This image is showing Wayne VK2XN WSPR signal this evening, which is the one on the graph showing not far below 500 Hz. You can see Wayne has had 3 transmissions on this graph. Looking from the left you can see two fairly normal looking transmissions, 2nd one fairly weak, then the 3rd one has a lot of freq spread on it, almost aurora like.

Here is a screen capture of a WSPR signal from VK2XN, trace is a little fatter than normal.

Hi Rob,

Attached is a shot of your huge 6m WSPR signal which suddenly appeared this evening. Note transmission previous and after are mostly just pings, the one in the middle was LOUD.

G'Day Leigh,
this 6m WSPR screen capture is what I got here from you at the same time.

Interesting freq spread on VK5ZRL. Me beaming west and I think ZRL beaming west also.

In this shot, it appears to me that the spread signal has shifted lower in freq from Rob. Ive highlight the approx center of shifted signal (left) and true sig (right). Also running ARGO in this one.

WSPR received in Darwin on 26 aug 12. Too weak to decode. I was beaming 145 degrees with 6M9 yagi. Gary
VK8AW / VK4ABW

Kinda looks like VK4TVLs signals, but it could be anyone I guess, I just had a look at the map, there is quite a few on there.
2m tropo around here so im using the sound card for Spect Lab atm.

Yep....old VK4TVL rockin my WSPR meter this arvo..... but the lad is out chasing 'skirt' again.....

VK8AW / VK4ABW

Nice work Gary, well done

Nice screen capture Gary.. Rock Solid..Not bad for 5watts and a Jpole.

WIth the TIger Boxes installed (USB SigLinks), i can now run four (4) instances of SpecLab / WSPR. Great for watching the A6 tv (48.250), Thai TV (48.260), C1 tv (49.750) and 50.110.....all at the same time. or playing WSPR all over the place.

It helps to have large dual monitors installed thou......ahhh my eyes

VK8AW / VK4ABW

some "fuzzy" signals from VK5ACY

Another screen shot I captured this morning
I think it was Leigh... VK2KRR

Its coming into that time of the year, the silly season , with potential for higher MUF Es to build up.

I wonder if we can encourage more operators who dont usually run 6m WSPR, to fire up their stations on Saturdays and Sundays over the coming warmer months The higher the numbers of active stations, the better it becomes. Even if its just a receive only set up, that still helps with signal data we wouldn't usually see from some areas.

Perhaps I can start the stats summary tables again that I was doing a while back, for each day.

Any other suggestions ?

Righteo, Weekend WSPR Warriors, lets see what we can come up with today.... hopefully something rather than nothing at all
If anyone needs any assistance with the program set up etc, ask away, plenty of people who can help.

VK2KRR wrote:Righteo, Weekend WSPR Warriors, lets see what we can come up with today.....

OK Leigh, I'll join in.. I rarely do any WSPR so, I'll get it going on 293 and point my antenna north & leave it all in autopilot for a couple of hours while I am doing outdoor jobs. Hopefully, I'll hear someone & also get heard too.

John

VK5ACY & VK5BC via meteor scatter in tandem

Its the Saturday Lunch Time Summary

Currently, today, Sat 17th Nov, the mornings been pretty slow on 6m WSPR. Great to see a good lot of stations turning their rigs onto the WSPR mode for a bit of weekend fun looking for sporadic E openings and any other propagtion that may be about.

Approx 26 stations have been operating on 6m WSPR this morning from VK-ZL. We have another 2 x near neighbours Thailand way also listening.
There has been numerous long and short meteor bursts heard by many. Sometimes this is a hindrance to decoding some signals, but can make for some interesting observations especially when a number of stations are transmitting at the same time (see Waynes previous screen shot).
No real sporadic E signals have been observed today so far.

Our intial longest distances were primarily very short tropo paths, with VK7XX being heard by VK7AB at 167 km.
Ye old faithful long tropo path between VK5ACY and VK2KRR then took over at 683 km.
Then a higher power run saw VK5AKK and VK5BC hearing VK2KRR at around 760 km.
At 0102 Darrell VK2BLS pulled in a sneaky one from Brian VK5BC at 1106 km. Not sure how this one got through.

Darrell VK2BLS and Brian VK5BC holding the furthest distance for Saturday so far. Wont take much to eclipse this one though if we get the E MUF to rise.

Got a couple of screen shots sent through that may be of interest, hope the guys dont mind.

First a spect lab shot from Phil VK5RM showing aircraft doppler signal coming across VK5KAA main signal. And VK5ZRL showing some of the solid local signals and more distant ping signals from myself, with VK5KAA with AE across it at times.