I am not sure if this is just a temporary blip but I am having great trouble accessing the main online database for WSPR called WSPRnet. It is taking an age to load. Although I have managed to access the database (after some minutes) I an shown as receiving no spots on either 10m or 6m. This may just be poor conditions or others failing to upload spots. I hope it is just temporary.
UPDATE 1545z: G6IMT (65km) is exchanging spots with me on 6m. With low Doppler, this could be pure tropo. I just checked the online traces from G6IMT and there are plenty of reflections from aircraft evident, although the traces that decoded may have been the direct tropo signal. Typically G6IMT is about -15 to -17dB S/N with me running 5W. Not sure what antenna he is using.
UPDATE 1740z: So far nothing at all on 10m WSPR.
UPDATE 1742z: I see that I spotted G3ZJO earlier this afternoon on 6m WSPR (-21dB S/N)
On 6m WSPR I would probably have been using a Comet 6/2/70 vertical @ 3m or 6m agl depending on the wind speed at the time! It is also possible that I was using a new Spiderbeam wire OCFD mounted on the same temporary mast.
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Stuart, G6IMT