I recently declared WSPR-X V0.8 r3058 a Dead Duck when Bob W9RAN and I both Failed to make it run on our XP Pro SP3 systems despite numerous fresh downloads and installs.

Thanks to Alan G4ZFQ, Justin VK7TW and Paul PA0OCD I now know that it Not a Good Idea to Install the program anywhere other than in C:\wsprx or D:\wsprx

A fresh download and install to C:\wsprx followed by a exit and restart after entering the station parameters and setup data resulted in the Dead Duck coming to life at last, receiving, decoding and updating perfectly.

Thank you gentlemen for your guidance, we live and learn sometimes the hard way.

73 Paul VK4ZBV

I notice an unpleasant increase in the number of stations using QRO in WSPR mode.
Could any operator running such powers please let me know the reason of this nonsense?
5W is A HUGE LOT of power on WSPR. Sort of running SSB at 1 kW.
10W is MEGAPOWER.
20W is OVERKILL.
50W is MADNESS.
Why such an useless waste of energy? All those watts will not get you any further nor any better or sooner than 1W - it's WSPR honey, no pileups to crash for showing how macho you are, get used to it.
I understand that many operators set their machines at minimum power, which usually is 5W. Which still is a lot of power. Well, build a simple attenuator and join the fun - satisfaction guaranteed.
The fun on WSPR begins at 0.5W, set your database on "miles per watt" and discover "who is who" in WSPR.
After all, those first two letters on WSPR mean WEAK SIGNALS.
Please stop polluting our frequencies with those unpleasant strong signals. Thanks.

It seems that something in my neighbourhood has parked itself on the 30m WSPRnet frequency. Can't hear a thing!
Trying out 20m instead!

I've got the information that JA-VK path on 6m will open about 2 to 3hour everyday at around 10:00GMT.
So I intend to work on 6m WSPR tomorrow night. Please beam to JA and watch my signal.

cq?

Please have look at my blog at http://zr6aic.blogspot.com

If you are looking for my websdr the url is http://zr6aic.giga.co.za:8901

Dear all,

After a large amount of head scratching and research I finally managed to get wspr_nogui.py to run stable on a headless Raspberry Pi, the main issue was mostly due to the well known Raspberry USB sync issue, it was finally resolved with a work around (force USB port to 12 Mbits/s USB 1.1). I've put together a simple howto to help others with enough time on their hands to try this.

check out the link below

http://lx3kr.blogspot.com/

cheers,

Karl (LX3KR)

I have recently been working on a Genesis G59 HF + 6m SDR kit which I purchased as "built but not working".

There have been a number of issues, both from the build process and faulty components, but it's not a massively complex radio, and 99% of the components are standard through hole mounting rather than SMD.

It is now fully operational on receive, and will hopefully be transmitting a whopping +10dbm within the next week.

As the only HF aerial here is a 1/4wl vertical for 40m, that'll be the band I concentrate on first.

There are still a few calibration issues to resolve - mainly the frequency calibration of the si 570 - uCP interface which is currently a few khz off frequency and led to me spending a whole night of listening to nothing before realising , but it is now up and running.

There is a blog of progress if anyone is interested at

http://www.ianandfaye.com and follow the menu through Ian > Amateur Radio > LF / HF > The Genesis G59

G7DWY / M0INB

Hello all, thanks to Guido PE1NNZ and others who made WSPR beacon SW for Raspberry PI. I'm working no on the Raspberry PI WSPR shield with PA and filters. There will be 4 filters and 4 antenna outputs (SMA connectors will be used). The filter are switched by GPIO ports from Raspberry. There will be some mods of SW needed. The filters are plugin modules. Two options of filters are available. Bandpass filter or low pass filter. The are filters are made from standard SMD 0805 capacitors and coils. The PCB for base board and filters is now in the factory and comming i hope in 3 weeks. There is also space for PA module. I'm working on PA with power around +20dBm with MMIC. When you can't use PA you can simply connect output from Raspberry to filtes by jumper. I hope that this board will be simple platform for making WSPR beacons...

73 Ondra OK1CDJ

hello everybody,
I was using WSPR under Win XP on my former laptop with great sucess. Since I changed my computer -now a desk computer under Win7 64 bits-, I cannot receive or decode any signal?
Has anyone got the same issues ? how to fix it ?
thanks for help

Gerard F6AVQ

On one hand, some good dx report:

2013-03-23 05:00 KE7A 1.838204 -33 -1 EM12kx 5 F59706 JN07th 7975 45
2013-03-23 05:02 AD5UQ 1.838160 -30 0 EM12qx 2 F59706 JN07th 7942 45
2013-03-23 05:36 AD5UQ 1.838160 -23 0 EM12qx 2 F59706 JN07th 7942 45
2013-03-23 05:14 AD5UQ 1.838160 -27 0 EM12qx 2 F59706 JN07th 7942 45
2013-03-23 04:15 K1JT 1.838207 -16 0 FN20qi 5 F59706 JN07th 5918 55
2013-03-23 05:15 K1JT 1.838207 -11 0 FN20qi 5 F59706 JN07th 5918 55

including a new US station in my listing: AD5UQ

On the other hand, it is no longer possible to receive and decode George K9PAW usually very regular.
I'm looking at, there is not even the beginning of a trace on the waterfall????

See you all again,
73, Patrick, F59706

My only dx that day at over 12000km.

Strange are the ways of 10m

Recently I gave a tech talk about analyzing WSPRnet data at a tech conference called Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2013.
The slides is here: http://www.k2r.org/kenji/papers/file-archive/rikitake-efsf2013-radioandr...
and the talk abstract is here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/speakers/kenjirikitake
You can write about this at your blog.
73
Kenji RIkitake, JJ1BDX (es JO3FUO)

Had a few spots from VK2DDI this morning on 30m.

To the best of my ability looking at computer models, the closest propagation
match would say that it was long path.

Anyone else agree/disagree ?

Either way, I'm just happy to have ben spotted with my 500mw and an indoor wire ;-)

73 de Andy

Hi,

Sorry if this is a little out of topic.
I have received orders from Bell Ross K7RSB on my online shop.
I need additional informations from him but it seems that he does not receive my e-mails.
Can someone inform him he can communicate with through this website, my blog or even checking the orders online on the shop web site... ?

Thanks for your help.
73,
Yan - XV4Y

There is now a modified version of Dan's, WsprryPi that should be capable transmitting WSPR on HF and VHF bands, just with a LPF and antenna connected to GPIO4.

For experimentation, my code and binary can be found here: https://github.com/threeme3/WsprryPi

73, Guido
PE1NNZ

Today I have posted WSPR-X v0.8 r3058 at

http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/WSPRX_08r3058.exe

Thanks to some excellent coding by Edson Pereira, PY2SDR, WSPR-X now compiles and runs properly on Linux as well as Windows. Some (mostly cosmetic) changes have been made to the GUI.

Important: reporting by WSPR-X to WSPRnet now includes information about stations being active on a band, and their Tx status, even when no spots have been uploaded.

A brief description of WSPR-X is now included on the WSJT Home Page. See
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wspr.html .

-- 73, Joe, K1JT

PS: Sorry, but we don't (yet) have a click-to-install WSPR-X package for Linux. If you know someone who might be interested in creating .deb files for WSPR-X, please let me know.

Sorry for the delay in getting to this, but I believe I have added the necessary site support for WSPR-15 spots. I no longer fix up spots with the timestamps on spots at :15 and :45 minutes past the hour. I have also restored the original times on all such spots over the few months. Please let me know if anything looks wrong!

Per tutti gli appassionati di bande basse, è stato costituito il Top Band Club ( http://www.topbandclub.org ).

A presto, Federico

Hi,

I have updated the source code for the WSPR agile beacon generator.
It has several improvements in the setting menu and now support WSPR-15 and an improved accuracy for WSPR-2.

The DDS beacon kit buyers can download it for free here and upgrade their micro-controller :
http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/boutique/?slug=product_info.php&products_id=34

73,
Yan - XV4Y.