My 10m WSPR TX beacon is back on at 500mW. 500mW seems like QRO compared with 500uW!! At 1045z, no spots.
UPDATE 1132z: 12 spots of my 500mW. Reports suggest 500uW would not be copied. 50mW would have got some spots, even 5mW.
Simple QRP projects, 10m, 8m, 6m, 4m, FT8, 160m, WSPR, LF/MF, sub-9kHz, nanowaves and other random stuff, some not related to amateur radio.
My 10m WSPR TX beacon is back on at 500mW. 500mW seems like QRO compared with 500uW!! At 1045z, no spots.
UPDATE 1132z: 12 spots of my 500mW. Reports suggest 500uW would not be copied. 50mW would have got some spots, even 5mW.
Yet again, I have had my beacon running with the PA off so the output is about 500uW. So far, and I suspect all day now, no spots.
When I go on 8m FT8, I forget that I can still go on 10m WSPR TX with my 500mW W5OLF WSPR beacon. It has just been turned on.
UPDATE 1610z: So far today, no spots of me.
UPDATE 1700z: No spots, so synchronised timing again. WSPRnet issue? Others don't seem to be having a problem. I was expecting some spots by now.
In the end, there was a quite good 10m Es opening on 10m yesterday.
Following the comment by Bas, I have changed the image format. I hope it is readable.Yet again (at 0850z) I am on 10m WSPR TX with 500mW from my W5OLF beacon. No spots yet.
UPDATE 1115z: Still no spots of me today.
UPDATE 1845z: Just local G4WSZ and the 2 Canary Is stations today. These latter 2 look like F2. Again, no Es here today.
For about an hour, I have been on 10m WSPR QRP TX with 500mW from my W5OLF beacon. Already, there have been 9 unique people spotting me. The Es season is underway!
UPDATE 1130z: 12 unique stations have spotted me so far. Definitely mostly, if not all, Es.
UPDATE 1830z: I am still being spotted by USA stations. The latest spot was by KC1AWS at 1826z but there are others too. 10m is still open transatlantic.
UPDATE 2100z: The last USA station to spot my 10m 500mW WSPR beacon today was W8QYT (5798km) at 1838z tonight. Time to go QRT on 10m WSPR. |
Amazingly, EA8BFK (2880km) has spotted my extreme QRPP 6 times already!! I had to double check it really was 500uW (0.5mW). It definitely ...