28 Apr 2023

40m FT8 RX (Friday)

It is intriguing to see how low I can RX on my tiny 20-10m QDX transceiver. At the moment I am on 40m FT8 RX with the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground, which seems to work better at 40m than my end-fed 10m antenna. It would probably work on TX too but the low pass filter is probably ineffective.

Nothing has appeared on PSKreporter, although I can see many stations locally on my screen. Perhaps there is a delay or a reset is needed?

UPDATE 1310z:  WSJT-X reset. Still no PSKreporter spots on 40m FT8 RX.  Just looked on the "all bands" view and I can see my 40m RX spots - odd.


UPDATE 1401z:
51 stations spotted on 40m FT8 RX on the 20-10m QDX RX with the earth-electrode "antenna" in the ground.

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